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Citizenship for immigrants creates stronger political integration
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- Written by Bethany Augliere
Stanford, California - Naturalization acts as a catalyst that builds greater social and political integration for immigrants and their new countries, according to Stanford research.
Chemists find better way to pack natural gas into fuel tanks
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - A new and innovative way to store methane could speed the development of natural gas-powered cars that don’t require the high pressures or cold temperatures of today’s compressed or liquefied natural gas vehicles.
Insect museum joins global effort to digitize 100 years of data
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- Written by IVN
Berkeley, California - For centuries, scientists exploring and documenting the natural world have sent billions of specimens to museums, universities and field stations. Now, UC Berkeley and other institutions across the globe want to make that information available to the public.
Study finds climate change will reshape global economy
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- Written by Kathleen Maclay
Berkeley, California - Unmitigated climate change is likely to reduce the income of an average person on Earth by roughly 23 percent in 2100, according to estimates contained in research published today in the journal Nature that is co-authored by two University of California, Berkeley professors.
Faster optimization
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Optimization problems are everywhere in engineering: Balancing design tradeoffs is an optimization problem, as are scheduling and logistical planning. The theory — and sometimes the implementation - of control systems relies heavily on optimization, and so does machine learning, which has been the basis of most recent advances in artificial intelligence.
Facing the global refugee crisis
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - The millions of Syrian refugees displaced by their country’s four-year civil war constitute a major tragedy - and could be a harbinger of even worse problems in the future, a group of scholars and relief workers suggested at an MIT forum on Wednesday.
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