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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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Engineering Of Scalable Platinum-Free Electrodes For Pure-Water Aem Water Electrolysis. Existing water electrolysis technologies are expensive due to high materials cost or complex balance-of-plant systems required when using conventional alkaline electrolysis. Phoenix Tailings.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Previously, land between airports had been represented by patches of color—green for forests, gray for urban, blue for water. In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments. In 1993, Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 Textures offered new details.

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