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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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Members of the team are Devaki Bhaya, Carnegie Institution of Washington; John H. Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. However, there is only one recorded sighting of this bacterium, which grows in toxic environments. Louis; and Costas D.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. As at the previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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Ford Motor Credit Company announced today Peer-2-Peer Car Sharing—a pilot program for select customers in six US cities and in London. US customers participate through the Web-based, mobile-friendly software of ride-share company Getaround, while London drivers connect through a similar rental system of easyCar Club.

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World’s first indoor electric car drive-in cinema lands at Farnborough later this year

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Teaming up with leading Drive-In Cinema specialists, YouTube sensation Fully Charged will be hosting multiple screenings of Christopher Nolan’s latest film, the much anticipated spy thriller, TENET, starring John David Washington. ” Fully Charged intends to tour the Electric Drive-In more widely in the very near future.

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Exxon/Mobil Guilty of Climate Change Coverup. Now Ordered Out of Torrance 3 Years Sooner.

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These include the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, Texas, which received $75,000 (£45,500), and the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, which received $50,000. Tags: carbon producers climate change environment fossil fuels greenwashing renewable energy solar power Exxon/Mobil Mayor Frank Scotto Torrance.

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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All these methods seek to detect anomalies in the natural environment, as represented in sophisticated models of baseline conditions that have been developed within the last decade, thanks in part to Moore’s Law advances in computing power. According to experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C.,

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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. Back in 1864, the Crystal Palace pneumatic railway used air pressure to propel a wagon uphill (and a vacuum to draw it back down) in Victorian south London. Louis, Bratislava-Brno, Vijaywada-Amaravati, and many others. Is it really a novel idea?