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Stanford collaboration helps governments offset damage caused by development projects
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- Written by Rob Jordan
Stanford, California - Globally, road and rail networks are expected to increase 60 percent by 2050. Increasingly, countries and funders are requiring such projects to account for and mitigate environmental damage. Mitigation projects, however, sometimes fail to benefit the communities most affected by new development.
California offers budgetary lessons for U.S. government
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- Written by Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - Once the fodder of late-night comedians, California's budgetary strategy is actually one that national lawmakers might emulate, a Stanford tax scholar says.
Engineers take big step toward using light instead of wires inside computers
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- Written by Chris Cesare
Stanford, California - Stanford engineers have designed and built a prism-like device that can split a beam of light into different colors and bend the light at right angles, a development that could eventually lead to computers that use optics, rather than electricity, to carry data.
Berkeley innovators driving Google technology
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- Written by Jonathan Pun
Berkeley, California - An article in IEEE Spectrum is shining the spotlight on the UC Berkeley connection to two of Google’s most high-profile innovations: self-driving cars and Street View cameras.
Scientists detect brain network that gives humans superior reasoning skills
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- Written by Yasmin Anwar
Berkeley, California - When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Take, as a dramatic example, the Apollo 13 voyage in which engineers, against all odds, improvised a chemical filter on a lunar module to prevent carbon dioxide buildup from killing the crew.
Project uses tech to help boost vaccination rates in India
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- Written by Sarah Yang
Berkeley, California - UC Berkeley students are creating a new tool that could soon make it far easier for children in developing nations to get life-saving vaccines.
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