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Miniscule Sensing Suite is a Big Step Towards Robotic Gnats

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In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

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But right now we’ve got some distance to go with any of these ideas. And again, scientists look to what they’ve observed before when arriving at these ideas. So those are the kinds of questions that they would like to study before they would say, “Oh yes, we know this is a good idea, or we know this is a bad idea.”

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Wall Street Report

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In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. That was the Explorer's downfall last year in an annual contest held by the Department of Energy to see which American university could build the most efficient-running car. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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The Rise of Groupware

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Getty Images Some of the basic ideas behind groupware were first forged at the Stanford Research Institute by a Douglas Englebart–led team, in the 1960s, working on what they called an oN-Line System (NLS). Building an application based on PLATO turned out to be the right idea at the right time, and it gave Lotus an edge in the market.

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

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SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Storing information in DNA is not a complicated concept.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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And on 8 March, the Washington Post reported that the White House was taking this suggestion under serious consideration. This prescription glosses over the differences in the use of Russian gas among EU countries, but it gives you an idea of just how drastic the needed temperature reductions would be.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

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Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. I watched the BMW i3s at Delaware University [an early V2X pilot], and my mind was blown. Your chargers are not public chargers, but I have a feeling you have some ideas about why the uptime is so bad. His name is Tom Gage. Tesla’s the best.