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CU Boulder study: routine household activities generate air quality on par with major polluted city

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Cooking, cleaning and other routine household activities generate significant levels of volatile and particulate chemicals inside the average home, leading to indoor air quality levels on par with a polluted major city, according to a study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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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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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

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University of Washington. Before the company’s founding, the university team had collaborated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers. The startup was founded in 2017 as a spin-off of the FuZE (Fusion Z-pinch Experiment) research team at the. The company produced its first fusion reactions the very next year.

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Researchers present new explanation for the long-range transport of PAH pollutants

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The predictions are based on the assumption that the particles are like liquid spheres, whose fluidity allows PAHs to escape. But they don’t escape, and one recent advance has helped to pin down why PAHs are remaining stuck in the particles. Again they used α-pinene for the SOA.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Both parents were fugitives, having finally escaped enslavement in Virginia after several unsuccessful attempts. Washington in 1904, Latimer expressed his support for Washington’s view that Blacks could acquire full citizenship rights in the United States by essentially remaking themselves, to whatever extent possible, in the image of Whites.

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Can AI Make a Better Fusion Reactor?

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"Physicists, they develop theoretical models, they write equations, they manipulate things mathematically," said Diogo Ferreira , a professor of information systems at the University of Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal. But there is a limit to that." AI, he says, can help. A second model detects anomalies in the plasma.

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Frank Talk on Plug-Ins

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photo EV World H ere is a new interview with Andy Frank from Washington Technology. Survival Guide: Perspectives from the field Washington Technology Feb. That was one of the reasons for our Plug-In Partners launch in Washington, to get fleet users from around the country to say to the car companies, “If you build it, we’ll buy it.”

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