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Date Time CCE Welcomes Grace Liang-Franco as New Division Operations Officer In February, the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCE) welcomed Grace Liang-Franco as its new division operations officer (DOO). She is charged with overseeing operations, logistics, finance, infrastructure, compliance, and other crucial administrative functions of the division. Liang-Franco, who comes to Caltech from the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, served as its sen...

Green hydrogen is being touted as an alternative to fossil fuels in New Zealand. The government has invested NZ$8.4 million to explore its potential and...

Sheryl Mai: Now is the time to plan for emergencies 14 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Central Whangārei deserted after the tsunami alert. Photo / Adam Pearse FROM THE MAYORS DESK Head for the hills! I am very proud of the response from our community to the tsunami alert after the earthquakes on Friday, March 5. The speed and efficiency of our emergency services response and the effectiveness of our siren and Emergency Mobile Alert (EMA) system network must be commended...

Air Force Special Operations Command and industry, sponsored two programs to demonstrate how nucleated foam washing on the CV-22 Osprey and KC-135 engines reduces specific fuel consumption and exhaust gas temperature, lowers maintenance costs, decreases carbon dioxide emissions, and extends time-on-wing. Preliminary results from the KC-135 testing, which occurred in November 2020 at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio, indicate a significant reduction in engine temperature using nuclea...

Scientists measured the transfer of energy from single-celled algae (phytoplankton) to small animals that eat them (zooplankton). The study - by Queen...

Boeing [NYSE:BA] and private investment firm 777 Partners announced today an agreement to add 24 737-8s to the firm's diverse aviation portfolio, with...

Kyoto University The Hotta lab shows that protection from cellular RNA enhances the genome editing of iPS cells. The ability for scientists to edit human genomic DNA has been around for decades. Such research has revealed how a single mutation in just one of the billions of base pairs in the human genome can cause destructive diseases. In the past decade, advances in CRISPR-Cas9 technology have taken DNA editing a major step farther and promise to revolutionize regenerative medicine. One of t...

Researchers at the ETH Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering have explored how flying can become more climate friendly. They have developed a...

East Beaumaris Kindergarten at 60 Wells Road, Beaumaris was awarded $12,500 towards the installation of solar panels through the Federal Government's...

Despite COVID-19, Vietnam's economy has remained resilient, expanding by 2.9 percent in 2020-one of the highest growth rates in the world-and growth is...