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Canada Rare Earth enters into agreement to purchase a rare earth separation refinery situated in Laos

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Canada Rare Earth Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase 60% of the issued and outstanding shares of a company based in Laos. The company’s future development plans entail extending capabilities to include rare earth metal making.

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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. The global emissions of CO 2 doubled from 1975 to 2015, and are projected to triple by 2040 if we stay on our present course4. Renewable energy future. Where are we heading? Where are we heading? —Chu et al.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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The following day (which happened to coincide with the short-lived Wagner Group rebellion ), we rewrote our algorithms so that our system mapped only the locations where suspected land mines were identified—a more scalable solution for our future work. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future. Our group here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was recently awarded three years of NASA funding to develop global maps of urban expansion between 2000 and 2010. —Professor Schneider.

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