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MARCH 12, 2019

These insights into how the beetle and its distinct microbiome have co-evolved provide a roadmap for the production of affordable, nature-derived fuels and bioproducts. A paper on the study is published in the journal Nature Microbiology. We study them because they are a natural model biorefinery. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge.

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MARCH 7, 2016

A team from the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and Forschungszentrum Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research has used neutron total scattering to gain new insights into atomic disordering of complex metal oxides.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Countries seeking to meet Paris Agreement targets on CO 2 emissions must get a grip on the amount of pollution produced at city level, according to a new open-access study published in S cience Advances by an international team of researchers from Europe and China. —Prof Guan. Yuli Shan, Dabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek, Bo Zheng, Steven J.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

million to 7 universities to conduct advanced turbine technology studies under the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Program. Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas. University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas. DOE share: $404,404; recipient share: $101,212).

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. The study lets us ask the really classic nature-nurture question. Both grants begin this fall. Tom Juenger.

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AUGUST 27, 2016

A study led by chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) indicates that highly variable contamination events registered in and around unconventional oil and gas developments are the result of operational inefficiencies and not inherent to the extraction process itself. —Kevin Schug. Wright, Kevin A. Schug, Guido F.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A study describing the research is published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Their study regions focused on North America, Europe and East Asia during the summer months, when abundant sunlight triggers the highest rates of ozone formation.

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MARCH 14, 2019

This insight could potentially inform bioremediation efforts in the region. Although several bacterial species isolated from hydrocarbon-contaminated sites in Antarctica have been shown to degrade hydrocarbons, this is one of the first reports to study strains from pristine soils. —Syahir Habib, co-author. Habib et al.

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MAY 9, 2014

A team from seven US universities and the Korea Institue of Science and Technology, led by George Huber, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed an integrated catalytic process for the conversion of whole biomass into drop-in aviation fuels with maximal carbon yields.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board tracked variations in the amount of lead transported across the Pacific over time. Lead’s geographical diversity was elucidated in a study conducted a decade ago by Australian scientists.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Global auto supplier DENSO announced the opening of the DENSO R&D Lab at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to accelerate development of new auto safety technologies and create new research opportunities for engineering students. DENSO’s lab is a simulation environment with high-speed computing and high-capacity data storage.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. University of California, Merced, Calif. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. DOE award: $298,191).

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JANUARY 28, 2018

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a major component of fine particulate matter—which causes adverse health effects—even in urban environments; vehicles may be a dominant source of SOA in urban areas, although there is still an ongoing debate over SOA formation from on-road sources.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Photo credit: Virrage Images / Shutterstock.com Recent studies have shed light on how the color of a car might affect its likelihood of being involved in an accident. Research from Monash University’s Accident Research Centre in Australia has provided insightful data on this matter. percent of these accidents.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified a small molecule surrogate for cellulose—?-cyclodextrin—in Dauenhauer says his team has used insight from studying the surrogate to make significant progress in understanding wood chemistry. Energy Environ.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) announced a sweeping set of new research programs studying the opportunities and addressing the challenges of emerging vehicle technologies. Applying big data and safety analytics techniques to develop algorithms and tools to study naturalistic driving data.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) and its Thai partners in the Ministry of Transport, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Metropolitan Police Bureau, Chulalongkorn University and Grab Thailand will launch a project to ease traffic congestion on Rama4 Road. It will be known as the “Rama4 Model.”.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Examines the fundamental types of machine learning that drive business insights and reviews advanced computational intelligence for business processes. Machine Learning in a Data-Driven Business Environment. This course explains how predictive and prospective analytics can deliver insights.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Source: University of Leicester. The study uses five different recognized methods for measuring the daily or seasonally highest ozone levels. Source: University of Leicester. Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science at University of Leicester. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. TOAR is not just a report.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin along with Ohio State University and Columbia University-Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory will examine what the primary influences are on the development of persistent, massive hydrate accumulations in deep sediments below the seabed.

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JULY 20, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications. Image courtesy of Jian Luo et al.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

A team from IBM Research and Stanford University has identified a chemical catalyst that can be used to create cheaper, biodegradable plastics from plants such as palm trees and beets. It does not contain heavy metals and can thus degrade in the environment over time just like the plastic itself.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

A team of Chinese researchers are planning to use the moon as a shield to detect otherwise hard-to-observe low frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum and open up a new window on the universe. If it launches in 2025 as planned it will offer one the very first glimpses of the universe through a new lens. The unknown unknowns.”

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

A new method to ensure consistency and quality in rubber manufacturing, developed by a research team from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Eastman, is likely to show real-world impact on material sustainability and durability for products such as car tires. That leads to safety and economic impacts. —Dayakar Penumadu.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Researchers at the Ohio State University led by Dr. Jen-Ping Chen are working to improve the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that engineers use to simulate and evaluate the operation of turbomachinery. Simulations of pulsing vortex generating jets, a type of flow control device, created on Ohio Supercomputer Center systems.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

The results, they said, may provide insight into the formation, stabilization and performance of bimetallic nanoparticles for catalytic reactions. The Pd-islands (light-brown spheres) are embedded in an environment of tungsten (blue spheres). Source: Umeå University. A schematic model of the unique morphology of the alloy.

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MAY 5, 2012

The project is an effort to leverage rigorously the many individual LCA studies to develop collective insights. eld of study, LCA has much to learn from more mature ?elds elds in terms of approaches to leveraging existing knowledge for higher-order insights. As a relatively young ?eld Meta-analysis is now a robust ?eld

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The study of proteins (proteomics) of thermophilic bacteria first found in Yellowstone’s hot springs are furthering efforts at the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) toward developing commercially viable ethanol production from crops such as switchgrass. The team’s measurement of the full complement and abundance of C.

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JULY 7, 2012

A new well-to-wheel (WTW) lifecycle analysis (LCA) by a team from the University of Calgary and the University of Toronto of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation fuels produced from Canadian oil sands finds that, on a WTW basis, lower emitting oil sands cases can outperform higher emitting conventional crude cases.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

In a Li/PEO–LiTFSI/Li symmetric cell under polarization, we determined and rationalized microscopic properties including local electrolyte velocities and ion correlations and connected this insight to measured and simulated macroscopic ion concentration gradients. This is a very thorough and complex study. —Eric Dufresne.

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JUNE 14, 2022

From preuniversity STEM programs and university offerings to continuing professional education courses and tutorials, there are so many ways to engage with education from IEEE. University students and faculty members. The celebration highlighted resources for: Engineers and professionals working in technical fields. Pallab Kumar Gogoi.

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JULY 16, 2015

New work by a team at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada has found that more than one-third of Canadian buyers want a plug-in vehicle (PEV), with the majority of those (89—93%) wanting a plug-in hybrid rather than a pure electric vehicle. The latter report was published in Energy Economics. —Suzanne Goldberg. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Although studies widely agree that widespread deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and the associated infrastructure would reduce air pollutant emissions from the transportation sector, the extent to which air quality in an urban airshed will be affected by these reductions is a more complex matter than simply quantifying emissions.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012

The new study found that PAHs trapped inside highly viscous semisolid secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles during particle formation are prevented from evaporation and shielded from oxidation. The new study shows that the airborne particles last longer with PAHs packed inside. —Zelenyuk et al.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Driving in chaotic urban traffic can be as nearly as stressful as jumping out of an airplane, according to new findings from an Audi and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study. One study showed that getting side swiped by an oncoming car can be almost as stressful as jumping out of a plane.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

A recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study estimated that the economic and societal impact of motor vehicle crashes in the United States is more than $870 billion per year. GM and Carnegie Mellon University demonstrated this when the “Boss,” our fully autonomous Chevy Tahoe, won the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007.

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