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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. The light source is a blue LED with a peak wavelength of 455 nm.

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Video Friday: Spot Levels Up

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Together with the visitors of the Nerdland Festival, they created the longest chain of robots ever, which also respond to light. Wing ] MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Texas study finds PHEV use could increase ozone at night, decrease ozone during the day

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The team modeled the air quality impacts of replacing approximately 20% of the gasoline-powered light duty vehicle miles traveled (VMT) with electric VMT by the year 2018 for four major cities in Texas: Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. The results are less clear in Dallas and Houston. Tammy M Thompson et al.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. Harvesting Infrared Light to Improve Photosynthetic Biomass Production - $1,347,122. University of Houston. University of Washington.

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GMZ-led project tracking to deliver vehicular thermoelectric generators for Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Honda Accord

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GMZ Energy and its partners are on track to deliver a 1 kW thermoelectric generator (TEG) for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle as well as to design and to integrate a light-duty vehicle TEG into a Honda Accord as part of a DOE-funded project. Ultimately, GMZ will test the final TEG on the dyno, and integrate it into the vehicle.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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Juliana Cherston prepares a smart-fabric system in the clean room at Alpha Space in Houston [top]. Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. Allison Goode/Aegis Aerospace. Our collaborators in the. Bob O'Connor.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. field trials.

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