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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis; and Costas D.

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APRA-E awards WUSTL $2M to develop predictive battery management system for plug-in vehicles; targeting more efficient use

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A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) will receive $2 million from the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E to design a predictive battery management system for lithium-ion batteries to guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. The School of Engineering & Applied Science is providing $1.2

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What Is Hyperloop? And What Does It Offer?

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Potential routes include New York-Washington DC, Pune-Mumbai, Kansas City-St. Louis, Bratislava-Brno, Vijaywada-Amaravati, and many others. Is it really a novel idea? Nobody has gotten very far with the teleportation idea, alas, but a number of companies have seized on the potential of the Hyperloop. Let’s inspect.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. StumbleUpon Newsvine livejournal Facebook BlinkList Contact us Close Contact the Environment editor environment@guardian.co.uk based in st. louis, wwt works closely. My Web del.icio.us nottingham.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. This had its advantages. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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