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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains. and its environs.

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SDSU-led project to design bacteria that extract rare earth elements in DARPA EMBER project

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—principal investigator Marina Kalyuzhnaya To do this, the researchers will tap into the natural propensity of methane-consuming bacteria living in extreme conditions to capture REEs from the environment. The researchers have teamed up with a startup company, Phoenix Tailings, to test and refine the recovery process.

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ARPA-E to award $10M to third SEED cohort

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The team will use engineered low-cost, scalable electrodes that are resistant to the most common degradation pathways. Phoenix Tailings. Phoenix Tailings (PT) has developed novel techniques to separate rare earth oxides (REOs) without the use of hazardous chemicals and reduce them to REMs using 35-45% less energy.

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Video Friday: Modular Polygons

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The Mori3 is geared towards difficult-to-reach environments where the task isn’t always known ahead of time, such as outer space. Grabbing an object as thin as a plastic bag is an incredible challenge for robotic hands, but Phoenix robots have the fine manipulation required to do it. UCSD ] Thanks, Liezel!

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Friday, 4 Dec 09. And the "Spirit" is on Target for Florence, Pinal Cty, , then on-ward to Parker, La Paz Cty and to Yuma, Yuma Cty Thereafter

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And EVJerr's blogging from Tucson with a couple sites to hit -- the popular bookstore, Bookman's is installing two e-vehicle chargers at two sites and one in Phoenix (See Arizona Daily Star, Thursday, 3 Dec "Ground broken for e-vehicle chargers" article by Dan Sorenson). if time just doesn't jet by, since last posting.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments. Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative. Yet Flight Simulator had a problem, and it was coming from inside the company: the Xbox game console.

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