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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Is there a better way for scientists to shine a light on nerve cells throughout the body? Optogenetics is an interdisciplinary branch of science in which cells are genetically altered to be light-sensitive, making it possible to inhibit or excite cells and to study their function by applying colored light.

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MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. The home is also three times more water-efficient than a typical US home.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The advancement could significantly boost the production of hydrogen from sunlight by using the cell to split water at a higher efficiency and lower cost than current photoelectrochemical approaches. Light is absorbed at the photoanode within the QD layer producing free electrons and holes. Click to enlarge. Yong Yan, Ryan W.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. Not surprisingly, the leaders said their priorities were access to reliable electricity and hot water.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware. Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. Yes, it’s far away, but distance doesn’t prevent its use, particularly when we consider just how cold the vast empty space of the universe is—approximately 3 kelvins.

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JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. University (Westinghouse). wall connection strategies, and evaluate their. Institute (Carpenter Technology; General Electric-Hitachi; The Ohio State University). University of.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production. Phase 1: Renewable energy.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

is building two fast-neutron nuclear breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to connect to the grid in 2023, the second in 2026. China is in the middle of a big buildup of its nuclear-weapon arsenal,” says Frank von Hippel , a physicist and nuclear-policy expert at Princeton University. “My It is anything but.

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APRIL 12, 2016

million square feet of work space will be rebuilt and upgraded into even more technology-enabled and connected facilities. Ford’s zero-waste, net zero-energy, net zero-water Sustainability Showcase facility will produce more energy than it consumes, and will use geothermal heating and cooling and photovoltaic power generation.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 13, 2021

As such, electrical engineer Xian Huang at Tianjin University in China and his colleagues explored creating transient small electronics that could safely dispose of themselves. Previously the researchers developed a composite material made using zinc nanoparticles that dissolved in water for use in temporary circuits.

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JUNE 4, 2018

These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time. By using a closed Brayton-cycle engine with components connected directly to the reactor core, the team expects to simplify plant construction, leading to lower costs and shorter commissioning times.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Billions of “intelligent objects” packed with sensors are connected to each other and to servers, capturing and exchanging, in real time, huge amounts of data. Well, not all of our planet: IoT does not connect us to seas and oceans. This blind spot is rather striking. This blind spot is rather striking.

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JUNE 11, 2014

Researchers at the University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Malaysia have developed an innovative process to make high strength cellular aluminium foam with help from some salt. In closed cell foam, the pore structure is isolated; the pores are not connected to each other.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Researchers at the University of California-Riverside have characterized the effect of decreased aromatic content fuels combusted in advanced vehicle technologies on emissions of particulate matter (PM). High vehicular speeds impact the particle hygroscopicity parameter κ and the fraction of water-insoluble particles.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Ranges in passenger occupancy can easily change the relative performance of modes, with large aircraft performing better than light rail in some of the areas investigated. Samples of the findings include: Off-peak urban diesel buses has the largest energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT, followed by the three light-duty vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Earlier post.) —Grimaud et al.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

James Weldon Johnson ’s hymn “ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under conditions they weren’t meant to survive.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

They might be connected to coastal infrastructure or float next to consumer. Such a design, as described at the Small Modular Reactors Symposium by MIT professors Jacopo Buongiorno, Michael Golay, and Neil Todreas, along with others from MIT, the University of Wisconsin, and Chicago Bridge and Iron, could ride out tsunamis.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Now, researchers from Stanford University, two Department of Energy national labs and the battery manufacturer Samsung have created a comprehensive picture of how the same chemical processes that give these cathodes their high capacity are also linked to changes in atomic structure that sap their performance. —William E.

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MAY 10, 2024

He flung his brush with quick strokes and played with the water, stretching it with rays of color. With its white walls, steel frame and floor-to-ceiling glass facade that gives a view out to the sea, the museum allows visitors to revel in the light — luminous and somber — produced by the fickle weather of Normandy.

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JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

HAC’s IEEE SIGHT program, which helps connect IEEE members with underserved communities and local organizations for work on sustainable development projects, now has almost 25,000 members. IEEE student members from Moi University in Mombasa, Kenya, designed and deployed "smart kibandas"— open huts or cubicles used for informal business.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

Midjourney can be used only with an Internet connection and offers different subscription plans. We plan to build such a robot in my lab at Uppsala University , in Sweden. Image 3 resulted from the prompt: futuristic jellyfish robot, high detail, living under water, self-sufficient, fast, nature inspired.

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Dayton Power & Light Company. Florida Power and Light Company. Hawai`i Electric Light. Indianapolis Power & Light Company.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier. of Fremont was awarded $94,953 to study the use of a mechanized charging device to automatically connect plug-in electric vehicles to the grid. Green Dot Transportation Inc.

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APRIL 8, 2014

These include technologies to improve conventional vehicles with the use of advanced lightweight materials; improvements in aerodynamics; and engines and powertrain technologies that improve vehicle efficiency for both light-duty vehicles and heavy trucks. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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MAY 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Exeter (UK) have developed a novel p-type LaFeO 3 photoelectrode using an inexpensive and scalable spray pyrolysis method. The nanostructured photoelectrode results in spontaneous hydrogen evolution from water without any external bias applied with a faradaic efficiency of 30% and excellent stability.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

When clean energy is available, carbon sequestration and desalination will be cheaper, climate change and water shortages will be solved, and when fossil fuels are out of the picture, the skies will be cleaner, the world will be quieter, the air will be fresher, and the future will be brighter. . Clean Energy: The Future of Sustainability.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

As the Science Editor notes, the net combustion reaction is simple to describe (oxygen reacts with hydrocarbons to form water and carbon dioxide) but the details are much more complicated. Decades of research worldwide have shown that QOOH must be a central connection in the network of ignition reactions. —Savee et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2022

In the morning, my working day usually began with a lecture to students at the university, and in the afternoon, I spent teaching classes at the college. For drinking water we have to go to the pump room. Warm water is in short supply. It would be good for our family.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The ship’s captain stopped the engines, and the aircraft flashed its lights at the rubber boat. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. It’s feasible because traffickers often hand a satellite phone to migrants and tell them to call for help once they are in international or European waters.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that the power is out. In our always-on, sensor-laden, Internet-connected world, shouldn't technology have done better? Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. Why is the dog barking, you wonder, as you wake up?

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems. As in Palo Alto, it will likely be blown transformers or constantly flickering lights that signal there is an EV charging-load issue.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

CPT announced the world’s first water-cooled electric supercharger developed for ‘quasi continuous’ boosting of commercial diesel and gasoline engines at the annual supercharging conference held at the Technical University of Dresden in 2012. —Andy Dickinson. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In the cutaway photo of a point-contact, two thin conductors are visible; these connect to the points that make contact with a tiny slab of germanium. Think about slowly pouring a small amount of fine powder onto the surface of water. Now we connect the collector. Consider an NPN device. The base is.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated solar water splitting by photovoltaic-electrolysis with a solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency of more than 30%—a new record. The PV-electrolysis system consists of a triple-junction solar cell and two PEM electrolysers connected in series. The prior record was 24.4%.

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