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Congressman Vargas Leads Efforts to Fund Crucial Programs
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- Written by IVN
Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Juan Vargas (CA-51) led and supported funding efforts to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations.
Elio Motors Plans to Sell 100 Pre-Production Vehicles Built at its Shreveport Manufacturing Facility
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- Written by Green Liver
Phoenix, Arizona - Elio Motors, Inc., the startup vehicle manufacturer planning to launch a three-wheeled vehicle that will get up to 84 MPG with a targeted base price of $6,800, announced it plans to sell 100 pre-production vehicles built at its Shreveport, Louisiana, production facility fourth quarter of 2016.
MIT develops nontoxic way of generating portable power
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - The new approach is based on a discovery announced in 2010 by Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor in Chemical Engineering at MIT, and his co-workers: A wire made from tiny cylinders of carbon known as carbon nanotubes can produce an electrical current when it is progressively heated from one end to the other, for example by coating it with a combustible material and then lighting one end to let it burn like a fuse.
Hands-on approach to art, math, and community
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- Written by Catherine Curro Caruso
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Yongquan “YQ” Lu is perfectly at home surrounded by sheets of paper. For him, these rectangles represent endless possibilities for math-based art, ranging from exquisite, three-dimensional origami forms created without a single cut, to intricate, multicolored geometric designs assembled with laser-cut paper strips.
Learning to think like an engineer
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- Written by Mijal Tenenbaum
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Since she was a little girl launching air-pressure rockets in her back yard in Houston, Texas, Neerja Aggarwal knew that she loved math and science. “I was always up to something,” the electrical engineering major recalls.
Wristband detects and alerts for seizures, monitors stress
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- Written by Rob Matheson
Cambridge, Massachusetts - People with epilepsy suffer from recurrent, unprovoked seizures that can cause injury and even death from “sudden unexpected death in epilepsy” (SUDEP), a condition that occurs minutes after a seizure ends.
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