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INRIX study identifies routes with greatest potential for e-VTOL services

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By analyzing trillions of anonymous data points from hundreds of millions of connected devices, INRIX Research identified the current routes with the greatest market potential in the Atlanta, Austin, Boston and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Any further and commuters will likely seek a change in employment or living locations.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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Henry Ellis Warren was born in Boston on 21 May 1872, a decade before Edison’s Pearl Street Station went online, in New York City, ushering in the dawn of the electric age. returning to Boston in 1902 as superintendent of the Lombard Governor Co. Warren went on to work in Michigan as an engineer for the Saginaw Valley Traction Co.,

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools. She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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To showcase this new technology, the soft motor is used in a variety of applications from squeeze-based speed control to fully-soft underwater propulsion to hybrid water pumps to propelling a hybrid toy car. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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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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The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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James Weldon Johnson ’s hymn “ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under conditions they weren’t meant to survive.

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