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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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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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—Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. The population maps were developed by the WorldPop team, led by Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton. This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future.

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

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Deployments and orders for fuel cells for telecommunications backup expanded into the Middle East, China, the Philippines, and other international markets. In addition, eight states signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate on zero-emission vehicle implementation. Earlier post.).

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Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

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The scientific case for such a strategy was laid out in an Op Ed in The New York Times by Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleague, Professor David Victor.

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Taiwan's AI Goals Will Need More Tech Talent

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Naturally, NDC views international students at Taiwanese universities as a vital source of future talent. Earlier this year, a new program was launched to attract students from nearby ASEAN countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, with a focus on AI, semiconductors , and other fields.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Musser’s original orrery was a hulking machine, standing over 2 meters tall and intended for use in museums and university classrooms. I first stumbled across Musser’s desktop orrery, called the Copernican Planetarium Model 500, during a visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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Palantir ] Dr. Heidi from Philippines Flying Labs provides a first report of the drone delivery training in Tawi Tawi along with the very first medical drone deliveries that took place as part of this training. [ Wood from Harvard University. PFL ] Stanford was one of the pioneers in artificial intelligence. UPenn ].

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