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Wisconsin, GLBRC researchers use chemical genomics to engineer IL-resistant yeast to improve biofuel production

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and colleagues have engineered a new strain of the yeast S. Quinn Dickinson, Scott Bottoms, Li Hinchman, Sean McIlwain, Sheena Li, Chad L. —Dickinson et al. Myers, Charles Boone, Joshua J. Coon, Alexander Hebert, Trey K.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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The lab hosts some 3,000 guest researchers each year, about one-fourth from industry. research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). It has an annual budget of around $1.4 Simmons, B.,

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Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40

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By Adam Hung, Uksang Yoo, Jonathan Francis, Jean Oh, and Jeffrey Ichnowski from CMU Robotics Insittute [ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ] Suction-based robotic grippers are common in industrial applications due to their simplicity and robustness, but [they] struggle with geometric complexity. Kowalewski, Chad C.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. China enters world markets as major exporter of industrial products. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. And sometimes you have less than six months or a year in this industry to do that. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. James Cortada is both a Ph.D. So it was fuzzy.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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The only problem is—that stride is a bit less impressive than the telecom industry may have hoped for. How 5G’s sluggish start impacts the research directions that the industry prioritizes for 6G and beyond. 5G Networks are Performing Worse. What’s Going On? iStock 2023 is probably the year in which 5G really hit its stride.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Will we have a universal standard for charging? John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. It is—as with a few things Tesla—it provided the model for what the rest of the industry is now trying to do. car market.