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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment.” She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

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Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. But for proof, the R1T successfully completed the TransAmerica Trail, a roughly 5,000-mile gauntlet from North Carolina to the Oregon coast. Instead, it’s the Rivian R1T, from the California start-up that’s already made founder R.J.

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DOE and USDA award $10M to advance biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products

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million, and selections include the University of California-Riverside; the University of Montana; Missoula; the North Carolina Biotechnology Center; the State University of New York; and Pennsylvania State University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The USDA is funding five projects for a total of $7.3

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Argonne’s Polybot Joins the Self-Driving Lab Club

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The discovered materials are a very tiny fraction of the hypothesized materials—like a droplet of water in an ocean,” wrote MIT professor of nuclear science Mingda Li over email. But those materials don’t yet exist, and discovering them is a Herculean task that involves synthesizing and testing large numbers of hypothesized materials.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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Engineers at Georgia Tech are the first to study the mechanics of springtails, which leap in the water to avoid predators. MIT ] The researchers from North Carolina State University have recently developed a fast and efficient soft robotic swimmer that swims resembling human's butterfly-stroke style.

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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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North Carolina State. Jet Fuel From Camelina Sativa : A Systems Approach North Carolina State University will engineer the oilseed crop. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. heating and water purification. energy storage MIT and Boston College will develop phase change materials.

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