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Volkswagen launches new research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville, the company’s technology unit for applied materials science, has expanded its research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). —Scott Keogh, President & CEO at Volkswagen Group of America.

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Electreon and ASPIRE to launch electrified roadway demo in Utah

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Israel-based Electreon, a developer ofin-road wireless electric vehicle charging technology for shared, commercial and passenger vehicles, and ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification), an NSF-funded engineering research center, are launching a joint demonstration project.

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Study finds increased air pollution can worsen both drought and flooding

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Zhanqing Li (lead author), Feng Niu and Yanni Ding of the University of Maryland; Jiwen Fan of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Yangang Liu of Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Aerosols alter cloud density and the radiative balance of the atmosphere. —Li et al.

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Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning?

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Two of the most interesting innovators in this field are the Israel-based startup. James Giordano , chief of neuroethics studies at Georgetown University Medical Center. In an office in Herzliya, Israel, Sergey Vaisman sits in front of a computer. InnerEye , an Israel-based startup that recently came out of stealth mode.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

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AMPECO has a global footprint—it has offices in England and France, and is rapidly expanding in the US—but I confess I was a bit surprised to find out how knowledgeable and insightful CEO Orlin Radev and Chief Revenue Officer Stefan Ivanov turned out to be about the global EV charging industry. They’re called Wattif.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A – Charged EVs

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AMPECO has a global footprint—it has offices in England and France, and is rapidly expanding in the US—but I confess I was a bit surprised to find out how knowledgeable and insightful CEO Orlin Radev and Chief Revenue Officer Stefan Ivanov turned out to be about the global EV charging industry. They’re called Wattif.

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Can Neural Stimulation Zap Addiction?

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Regulators in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Israel have already authorized the treatment as an aid for cigarette smokers hoping to kick the habit. There are TMS clinics cropping up like mushrooms after rain,” says Veljko Dubljević , a neuroethicist at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh. “We