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Taking Stock of COP26 - LivestreamIn 2015, delegates from 196 nations entered into the legally binding treaty on climate change known as the Paris Agreement, which set a goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2 and preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.” Yet in August of this year, the United ...
The fast growth of portable power sources for transportation and grid-scale stationary storage presents great opportunities for battery development. The invention of lithium ion batteries has been recognized with Nobel Prize in 2019. How to increase energy density, reduce cost, speed up charging, extend life, enhance safety and reuse/recycle are ...
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Exploring the Cosmos with Superconducting Detectors - LivestreamOur group at JPL has recently deployed a state of the art SNSPD camera at the Palomar 200-in telescope for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communication project. This camera will act as the downlink receiver for the Psyche spacecraft (launches in 2022) to demonstrate the viability of laser communication links for ...
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Making the cells that make the face: Neural crest cell development across species - LivestreamDr. Crystal Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology at UC Davis. Dr. Rogers received her PhD from Georgetown University with Dr. Elena Silva Casey and did her postdoctoral work with Dr. Marianne Bronner at Caltech. The Rogers’ Lab studies the molecular mechanisms ...
Form Energy is a battery technology company founded in 2017 focused on developing a new class of multi-day energy storage systems that enable a reliable, secure, and fully-renewable electric grid year-round. At its founding, Form sought to understand the dynamics of deeply decarbonized grids to inform our battery requirements. Form ...
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What must change for things not to stay the same? - LivestreamHave you ever felt that the more things change, the more they stay the same in relation to diversifying the scientific community? Indeed, over the past fifty years, while the demographics of the higher education science community have changed, those changes have far from kept pace with national demographic shifts, and the ...
