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Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen

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Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an “artificial leaf”—a solar water-splitting cell producing hydrogen and oxygen that operates in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. Reece et al. Click to enlarge.

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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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Speaking at the launch of the IEA report in London, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said that “ An expansion of gas use alone is no panacea for climate change. ” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering.

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MIT team outlines path to low-cost solar-to-fuels devices; the artificial leaf

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A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. Watson Research Center) and former MIT graduate student Casandra Cox (now at Harvard). Source: Winkler et al.

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Video Friday: Robots at Night

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ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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The above quantum sensor for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses only low-cost materials. MIT The nano-diamonds and the other materials used in the test are cheap. We hope to get promising results very soon," says researcher Changhao Li , a quantum engineer at MIT.

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