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Pro-Palestinian protesters walk out of Northwestern commencement
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoClaiming their degrees are “stained with blood,” several dozen pro-Palestinian protesters walked out...
Exploring the potential of micro nuclear reactors for electrifying developing regions
Tech Xplore· 14 hours agoOne possible solution for electrifying geographical regions with no reliable access to electricity could be the use of small or micro modular nuclear reactors. While these small-scale reactors ...
Linguist and Activist Noam Chomsky Hospitalized in His Wife's Native Country of Brazil After Stroke
US News & World Report· 2 days agoLinguist, activist and social critic Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife's native country of Brazil recovering from a massive stroke he had a year ago, she confirmed Tuesday. Valeria Chomsky ...
Lynn Conway, pioneering transgender computer scientist and activist, dies at 86
The Advocate· 2 days agoLynn Conway, a distinguished computer scientist who was fired by IBM in 1968 for being transgender,...
How a simple fix could double the size of the U.S. electricity grid
The Bulletin· 2 days ago“This is something that could be a triple win,” said Brian Deese, an innovation fellow at the ...
ASU, UArizona in top 20% of world's educational institutions, yearly ranking shows - Phoenix...
The Business Journals· 6 days agoAll three of Arizona’s public universities have a spot on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World...
Newswise Expert | Kris Niyogi, Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project
Newswise· 6 days agoProfessor Kris Nyogi is the Associate Chair of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Kris is also a faculty scientist in the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Fumihiko Maki, honored architect of understated buildings, dies at 95 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 1 day agoIn an interview for this obituary in 2010, Mr. Maki said his goal was not to make his buildings...
80 percent of Texas freeze blackouts could've been averted, study says
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoConnecting the Texas power grid to the federal grid could have prevented 80 percent of blackouts...
Fumihiko Maki, architect who tapped power of simplicity, dies at 95
Washington Post· 23 hours agoFumihiko Maki, a Japanese architect whose sunlight-dappled spaces and uncluttered lines sought to...