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SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The study found that 60% of the winter primary hydrocarbon hydroxyl radical reactivity in London is from those diesel-related hydrocarbons; the authors predicted that the longer-chain HCs contribute up to 50 % of the ozone production potential in London. Dunmore et al. Dunmore et al. Dunmore et al.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

The company, Muradel Pty Ltd , is a joint venture of Murdoch University , Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd (the commercial development company of the University of Adelaide), and commercial partner SQC Pty Ltd. Incorporated in 2010, Muradel has raised A$5 million (US$4.96 Their work has already led to the establishment of a $3.3-million

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

ASAP ] from [ Carnegie Mellon University ] and [ Nvidia ] Big News: Swiss-Mile is now RIVR! Were thrilled to unveil our new identity as RIVR, reflecting our evolution from a university spin-off to a global leader in Physical AI and robotics. RIVR ] Robotics is one of the best ways to reduce worker exposure to safety risks.

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MIT ] CubiX is a wire-driven robot that connects to the environment through wires, with drones used to establish these connections. But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. JSK Lab ] Thanks, Shintaro!

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JUNE 13, 2019

Jaguar Land Rover, Denchi Power, 3M, Potenza, Lifeline and Tri-Wall are pooling resources with academics and experts at the University of Warwick and the Health and Safety Executive. Two HESS will be built—one for lab tests in a controlled environment and one for tests in an Aston Martin vehicle.

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JANUARY 8, 2022

A team led by Heriot-Watt University used an array of seafloor landers, including seabed respirometers and baited traps and cameras, to collect a wide range of data to assess ecosystem function on the abyssal seafloor.

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MARCH 29, 2023

A study by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK has found that while Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOCs) and Diesel Particle Filters (DPFs) has been very effective in controlling the tailpipe emissions of solid particles, there has been little change in the liquid mode ( 104 cm −3 /24-hour mean) defined by WHO. 2023.107888

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DECEMBER 12, 2009

Less than 1% of the vehicles registered every year in the UK are electric and most of these are currently used in London. Today’s launch is a landmark occasion for the UK automotive industry, and this project will begin to examine the points where the vehicles meet the built environment—energy generation, battery charging and driver behavior.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

The data were collected from the royal research ship RRS James Clark Ross, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s International Polar Year Initiative. Professor Tim Minshull, Head of the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science. Resources.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The cities/metro areas studied were: Los Angeles County; Greater Toronto; Geneva Canton; Greater Prague; Cape Town; Denver City and County; New York City; Greater London; Barcelona; and Bangkok. London has the highest emissions for air transportation at 3.12 Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto.

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MARCH 22, 2018

The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales). Burrows, the Principal Investigator of the mission and a professor at the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL). Haas of York University, Canada Research Chair for Arctic Sea Ice. The research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the European Space Agency, the German Aerospace Center, Alberta. minimum ice extent during the 2012 autumn. Geophysics.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

—James Rising, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. —Naresh Devineni, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The City University of New York. Nature Communications.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The pilot project is part of the LUTZ (low carbon urban transport zone) project which is a research collaboration between engineering consultancy Arup, Transport Systems Catapult, Cambridge University and the Automotive Council. The ‘pods’ will be able to carry two people and will be run on designated pathways in Milton Keynes city center.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Robot Studio ] at [ University of Michigan ] Hard to believe that RoMeLa has been developing humanoid robots for 20 (!) RoMeLa ] at [ University of California Los Angeles ] In this demo, Reachy 2 autonomously sorts healthy and unhealthy foods. This work aims to bring ownership back to artists in the age of generative AI.

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APRIL 25, 2023

In an open access paper in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) have investigated the effect of group riding on cyclists’ exposure to vehicle pollutants. —Schmeer et al. 2023.105333

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

With just 39% of men and 29% of women in the UK reaching the Department of Health’s recommended level of health-enhancing physical activity, the answer to the UK’s growing obesity problem could depend on people choosing to swap car journeys for walking and cycling, according to a new study by researchers at University College London (UCL).

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MAY 4, 2017

Shindell, professor of climate science at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, co-authored the paper with colleagues from the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C.;

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JULY 5, 2025

The University of Queensland’s Dr. Thang Vo-Doan and Research Assistant Lachlan Fitzgerald have demonstrated they can remotely guide darkling beetles (Zophobas morio) fitted with the packs via video game controllers. Paper ] via [ University of Queensland ] Thanks, Thang!

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Oxbotica has already started work on addressing this challenge with on-road trials taking place in Stratford, East London last September. In fact, our software has been designed to operate not dependent on any infrastructure, so it can understand the vehicle's environment in infinite detail. —Ozgur Tohumcu, CEO at Oxbotica.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Three of the Midland’s leading universities play a major role in the scheme: Coventry University on the selection of drivers; Aston University in the analysis of vehicle usage; and the University of Birmingham in the use of hydrogen fueling station – theirs is currently one of the very few of its kind in UK.

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APRIL 4, 2025

University of Zurich (UZH) ] Unitree releases Dex5 dexterous hand. Suzumori Endo Lab ] No matter the vehicle, traditional control systems struggle when unexpected challengeslike damage, unforeseen environments, or new missionspush them beyond their design limits. Please send us your events for inclusion. No map, no IMU, no SLAM!

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. The HiUCV is targeted to halve the overall carbon emissions per tonne of waste collected of current best-in-class Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) in the urban environment.

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APRIL 25, 2017

The DRIVEN consortium—led by artificial intelligence company Oxbotica , which is developing next-gen autonomous vehicles—will test a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles in urban areas and on motorways, culminating in an end-to-end journey from London to Oxford.

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MAY 23, 2017

Researchers at Imperial College London, working with colleagues from King’s College London and University of British Columbia, have demonstrated a mechanism by which diesel exhaust particles directly affect the lungs to initiate symptoms such as a tightening of the airways and cough. Robinson, Mark A. Birrell, John J.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory. Led by Dr. Dongpu Cao at Cranfield University, with UCL as a partner, this project aims to achieve a safe engagement and smooth and swift control-authority shift between the driver and the vehicle controller during adaptive automated driving.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The project brings together Dearman, Hubbard Products, Air Products, Productiv, Wessington Cryogenics and Loughborough University, who will each bring their own expertise to the development, manufacturing and commercialization of the technology. Applications of Dearman Engine technology can have a significant impact on the environment.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

A collaboration led by researchers at Leiden University in The Netherlands has launched a Europe-wide citizen campaign— iSPEX-EU 2015 —to use a smartphone add-on and app to measure atmospheric aerosols (tiny particles), resulting in a broad-based data set with high spatio-temporal resolution. iSPEX add-on. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 13, 2015

A study by researchers in Israel and the US has found that single (“sub-clinical”) exposure to extracts from particulate material (PM) collected in a near roadway environment can induce a transient oxidative stress and inflammation in mice’ lungs. They collected PM samples from a roadside monitoring site in central London in early July 2012.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A fuel tailored to these operating conditions and ambient environments might be preferred for optimum energy conversion to useful energy.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Scott Palo , professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says that establishing an inter-satellite optical communications network is one of the biggest challenges in satellite-based wireless and broadband networks. Kuipers Satellite Catch-up To be fair, Kuiper Systems hasnt exactly been sitting idle.

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JULY 7, 2022

Agrawal found solace in advocacy and support organizations in London after moving there in 2005. She went on to form her own groups and lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the universities she worked for in London and Sydney. And, she says, the workplace atmosphere wasn’t welcoming.

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APRIL 24, 2017

A reduction in the thickness and coverage of contrails produced by the jet engines of aircraft could reduce aviation’s impact on the environment, an important beneficial effect of sustainable biofuel usage in aviation. The sustainable biofuel is produced by AltAir Fuels from used cooking oil and supplied by SkyNRG.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For the ADEPT project, the consortium comprises CPT, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Ford and the University of Nottingham. The management of the project is being handled by Ricardo. There is a continual drive within the auto industry for low carbon vehicle technologies.

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APRIL 18, 2025

Unitree ] A team of scientists and students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (TU Delft) has taken first place at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi - an international race that pushes the limits of physical artificial intelligence, challenging teams to fly fully autonomous drones using only a single camera.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Several ongoing pilot programs include GoPark, which is building a predictive parking system in London capable of directing drivers to streets where they are most likely to find a space; also in London is GoDrive, a car-sharing program that provides vehicles with guaranteed parking at busy locations. Investing $4.5 Earlier post.)

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JUNE 30, 2016

However, these energy and carbon benefits are by no means guaranteed and will require strategic policy interventions to maximize them according to new report by the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at the University of Leeds, commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

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