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Rio Tinto to invest ~$200M to progress the Jadar lithium project to feasibility study stage; jaderite

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Rio Tinto has approved an additional investment of almost $200 million to progress the next stage of the development of the lithium-borate Jadar project in Serbia. Rio Tinto’s lithium project pipeline is an important part of our vision to pursue opportunities which are part of the transition to a low-carbon future.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. Hwang is a professor of IT convergence and communication engineering at. Kunsan National University , in Korea; Miicevic is an assistant professor of telecommunications and IT at the University of Belgrade , in Serbia; and Bojkovi? Education and Early Career.

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Pre-series-production eActros 300 Tractor drives 3,000 km from Germany to Turkey for testing

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Test engineers chose a route across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria for the trip. Christof Weber, Head of Global Testing at Mercedes-Benz Trucks When driving to Turkey, test engineers focused in particular on safety systems, performance and durability of the vehicle.

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Argonne-led study insights help to reduce degradation in fuel cells and extend lifetime

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The novel part of this research is resolving the mechanisms and fully mitigating platinum dissolution by material design at different scales, from single crystals and thin films to nanoparticles.

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U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

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consumer market fed China’s export engine, itself outfitted with U.S. B-2 Stealth Bomber dropped bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, killing three people. Already, China is. Ironically, China is a competitor that the United States abetted. It’s well known that the U.S. That back-and-forth worries U.S.

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