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NASA selects four university teams for aviation projects; eliminating emissions and autonomy research

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NASA has selected four university-led teams for potential awards in the agency’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI) that will have them spend up to five years exploring novel ideas for improving aviation, including eliminating emissions and autonomy research in support of Advanced Air Mobility. Florida State University.

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Study finds high-density, low-rise cities such as Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing life cycle GHG emissions

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A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. There is a growing belief that building taller and denser is better. Pomponi et al.

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Covariant Announces a Universal AI Platform for Robots

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Pieter Abbeel, Covariant You can think of the current execution of RFM-1 as a prediction engine for suction-based object manipulation in warehouse environments. In the context of generalization, Covariant talks about RFM-1’s ability to “understand” its environment.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. and its environs. Thirty-five students and several faculty members from the Ohio State University engineering college , in Columbus, designed an environmentally friendly solution.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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The study, lead by University of Edinburgh PhD candidate Patrick Miner, also seems to have been influenced and goes into great detail outlining the specific harms caused by driving.& The report is even entitled “ Car harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment.”

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Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing With Tesla Bot

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But from listening to what Elon Musk said today, I don't think he has any idea what getting humanoid robots to do useful stuff actually involves. Besides, autonomous cars live in a highly constrained action space within a semi-constrained environment, and Tesla cars in particular have plenty of well-known issues with their autonomy.

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Researchers show how bacteria convert toxic copper ions to stable metallic copper

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Researchers from the University of Houston, with colleagues at the University of São Paolo in Brazil, have demonstrated how copper-resistant bacterium from a copper mine in Brazil convert CuSO 4 (copper sulfate) ions into zero-valent Cu (metallic copper). An open-access paper on their research is published in Science Advances.

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