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AUGUST 9, 2022

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) robotics researchers working with Ford Motor Company have found a way to tell an autonomous vehicle which cameras to use when navigating. Knowing where you are helps you leverage map information that is also useful for detecting other dynamic objects in the scene. Resources.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Shell and The University of Texas at Austin signed a five-year agreement to invest $7.5 According to the US Energy Information Administration, shale gas, tight gas,and coalbed methane accounted for 50% of US production in 2009 and are expected to account for 75% of production by 2035.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Queensland researchers, working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have found a way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol— a building block of aviation fuel and other products—more efficiently. Resources Bayaraa, T., Enzymatic cascade to produce isobutanol from D-glucose.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

American Battery Metals Corporation; Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources. General Atomics; Rare Earth Element (REE) Separation and Processing Demonstration Project Partners: Rare Element Resources, Inc.,

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AUGUST 16, 2017

University of Sydney team advances rechargeable zinc-air batteries with bimetallic oxide–graphene hybrid electrocatalyst. Resources. Zinc-air batteries are powered by zinc metal and oxygen from the air. Other two amorphous bimetallic, Ni 0.4 O x and Ni 0.33 —Wei et al. Karahan, S. Chen, Z.

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MARCH 19, 2021

Achates Power will work with Isuzu Technical Center of America (ITCA), Clemson University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as project members. The University of Wisconsin will contribute closed-cycle CFD to optimize clean, efficient combustion. . ITCA will provide vehicle and engine requirements and benchmark information.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

The contributions from ions, electrons, and interfaces are deconvolved by correlating the CPD profiles with Li-concentration profiles and by comparisons with first-principles-informed modeling. The work was done in collaboration with NIST, Naval Research Labs, University of Maryland College Park and Brown University.

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JUNE 19, 2020

A team of researchers, led by Professor Gavin Shaddick at the University of Exeter, has shown that, despite global efforts to improve air quality, half of the world’s population is exposed to increasing air pollution. Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter. a)Map of global PM 2.5 Units for both are ?g/m Shaddick, G.,

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has posted a new online collection of resources related to climate change, including audio and visual presentations from a recent ACS forum on the science of climate change and video from an ACS press briefing on this forum. Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University. John Christy, Ph.D.

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JULY 8, 2022

It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. GHz, 40 kbps downlink over which the telescope transmits engineering data—things including its operational status, systems health, and other information concerning the telescope’s day to day activities. One is the 2.09

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APRIL 29, 2024

Last year, the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab released a study of a proprietary Chinese keyboard system owned by the Shenzhen-based tech giant Tencent. student at Princeton University and co-author of the report. Even competent and well-resourced people get encryption wrong, because it’s really hard to do correctly.”

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APRIL 10, 2019

Federal Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, the Hon Karen Andrews, announced that the Curtin University-led national collaboration of 58 industry, government and research partners had been successful in its bid to establish the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Center (CRC).

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APRIL 4, 2022

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are presenting a framework for comparing how different micromobility vehicles, such as e-scooters, and bicycles move in cities, a methodology that can benefit companies and local authorities alike, and contribute to improving traffic safety. —Marco Dozza. 2022.01.007.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Ansell presented his findings at AIAA Aviation 2023 in June.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

The researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington and Victoria University studied the impact of new cycling and walking paths built in New Plymouth and Hastings in 2011. Researchers in New Zealand have shown that investing in cycle lanes and walkways encourages people to drive less and cuts carbon emissions.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin, and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research, is conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production, about which little empirical data exist.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image Credit: Gordon Humphries, University of Strathclyde. The approach provides real-time spatially resolved information for carbon dioxide emissions from a large-scale commercial engine, said research team leader Michael Lengden from the University of Strathclyde in the UK. Resources. Upadhyay, M. Lengden, G.

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

IBM and the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) in Mexico have created a Smarter Cities Exploration Center. The University will foster the assimilation of high-level competencies and expertise by its doctoral students and researchers, to support efforts designed to tackle issues that have a high social and economic impact for Latin America.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The researchers from UC Santa Barbara, Université de Montréal, University of British Columbia and University of Bern used survey data from Canada and Switzerland—the only countries with climate rebate programs—to show low public awareness and substantial underestimation of climate rebate amounts in both countries.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The US Geological Survey has released its first estimate of the potential of undiscovered, technically recoverable onshore shale oil and gas resources in Alaska’s North Slope. However, the recent success of shale oil and shale gas development in the lower-48 states demonstrates the technical viability of such resources, USGS said.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

In a first, University of Sydney researchers have found evidence of how hydrogen causes embrittlement of steels. This information is vital for designing embrittlement-resistant steels. Credit: University of Sydney. Credit: University of Sydney. —Chen et al. —Dr Chen.

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JUNE 28, 2012

Six research teams from the University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have won a share of $1.16 Principal investigators: Ming Xu, U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment; Xiaojun Hu, SJTU Energy Research Institute. Engineering the right fuel for sustainable transportation.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

University of Saskatchewan geoscientist Lee Barbour has been awarded a $2.6-million In addition, Syncrude and the university will contribute more than $1 million through in-kind support. million over the five-year research project, with another $1.3-million million provided by NSERC. million provided by NSERC. —Lee Barbour.

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JULY 11, 2022

Electric vehicles can handle the distances required to travel to essential services in remote and regional Australia, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. And information on the performance of electric vehicles in very hot conditions is still lacking. —Dr Markham. Keigan Demaria, Björn C.

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MARCH 26, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted its Triennial Strategic Research Plan. It acts as a resource for those interested in CARB’s research priorities for the 2021-2024 fiscal years, informing sister agencies, universities and communities of the agency’s priorities.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare-earth elements from it. According to the study, passive approaches tend to require fewer resources and have fewer environmental impacts. Marcos M.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Layers of graphene separated by nanotube pillars of boron nitride (PGBN) may be a excellent material for on-board hydrogen storage in vehicles, according to a computational study by a pair of Rice University scientists. The study by Rouzbeh Shahsavari and Farzaneh Shayeganfar appears in the ACS journal Langmuir. 6b02997.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A team from the University of Chicago, University of California, Davis, and UC Berkeley combined billions of hourly electricity meter measurements with address-level EV registration records in California—home to about half of the EVs in the United States. The takeaway here is not that EVs should never or will never be our future.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Livent obtains lithium from a brine resource in northern Argentina, using a proprietary method that is particularly sustainable. Lithium water study in cooperation with University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Massachusetts Amherst. The company is also involved in local educational programs and infrastructure measures.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Dr. Kenneth H.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing the Exascale Additive Manufacturing project ( ExaAM ). Turner et al. Turner et al.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

We are proud to be a resource as well as helping to train the next generation of semiconductor process technicians and engineers.” “A IEEE TryEngineering educational resources Since 2006, IEEE TryEngineering has empowered educators to foster the next generation of technology innovators.

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MARCH 20, 2022

Researchers from Ames Laboratory and Texas A&M University have trained a machine-learning (ML) model to assess the stability of new rare-earth compounds. Based on this collection of information, the developed ML model uses regression learning to assess phase stability of compounds. A paper on their work is published in Acta Materialia.

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APRIL 11, 2023

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource ( EMBER ) program ( earlier post ), San Diego State University researchers are developing advanced extraction methods with the aim of boosting the domestic supply of REEs.

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JUNE 1, 2023

With the current raw material production levels there will not be enough of these metals in future—not even if recycling increases, according to the findings of a major survey led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on behalf of the European Commission. Resources European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Mathieux, F.,

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

An international team led by scientists from the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong in Australia has verified that the introduction of novel molecular orbital interactions can improve the structural stability of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Resources. Olsson, J.

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