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Assistant Secretary Rose To Attend 2016 U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium
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Washington, DC - Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Frank A. Rose will attend the 2016 U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Deterrence Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska from July 27-28. While there, he will participate in a panel discussion on the future of arms control among major state powers.
Washington Conference on Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities under ISIL
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Washington, DC - The United States will convene an international conference on Threats to Religious and Ethnic Minorities under ISIL on July 29, 2016, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington, D.C.
Liberia National Day
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Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry: "On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I congratulate the government and people of Liberia on the 169th anniversary of your country’s independence.
New lithium-oxygen battery greatly improves energy efficiency, longevity
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Lithium-air batteries are considered highly promising technologies for electric cars and portable electronic devices because of their potential for delivering a high energy output in proportion to their weight. But such batteries have some pretty serious drawbacks: They waste much of the injected energy as heat and degrade relatively quickly. They also require expensive extra components to pump oxygen gas in and out, in an open-cell configuration that is very different from conventional sealed batteries.
Reducing wait times at the doctor’s office
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Ever waited entirely too long at your doctor’s office for an appointment to start? The long wait may soon be over: An MIT spinout’s schedule-optimizing software that gets more patients seen more quickly could soon be used by tens of thousands of health care providers across the country, after a recent acquisition by a major health care services company.
MIT scientists find weird quantum effects, even over hundreds of miles
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - In the world of quantum, infinitesimally small particles, weird and often logic-defying behaviors abound. Perhaps the strangest of these is the idea of superposition, in which objects can exist simultaneously in two or more seemingly counterintuitive states. For example, according to the laws of quantum mechanics, electrons may spin both clockwise and counter-clockwise, or be both at rest and excited, at the same time.
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