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HALO research aircraft measuring the emissions of megacities in EmeRGe project

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The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales). Burrows, the Principal Investigator of the mission and a professor at the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen.

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DOE fuel cell market report shows continued growth, with sales surpassing $1.3B worldwide in 2013

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Although early markets such as stationary power and material handling account for the bulk of sales, DOE noted that the fuel cell industry made “tremendous progress” in the light-duty transportation sector in 2013. In addition, eight states signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate on zero-emission vehicle implementation.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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patent application for a “new and improved orrery,” Musser mentioned the importance of showing the asteroid belt, in light of growing interest in space travel beyond the moon and Mars. A translucent screen had astronomical labels and markings inscribed in phosphorus, visible only when backlit with ultraviolet light. In his 1958 U.S.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. Three years later, while working at the IAF, he was named an honorary professor in the University of Freiburg physics department. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, it created a haze of particles so dense that it temporarily cooled the planet by. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University.

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IEEE Standards Development Pioneer Koepfinger Dies at 99

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Koepfinger had a 60-year career at Duquesne Light , in Pittsburgh, retiring in 2000 as director of its system studies and research department. He received bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1949 and 1953. He published more than 70 academic research articles.