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Opinion: The global response to Trump and Musk cannot be anti-EV rhetoric

A Greener Life

Elon Musk pictured with the Tesla Model S in 2011. Musk did not create or invent Tesla Historically, Tesla has been a fantastic innovative company, recognised mainly for having played a transformative role in battery technology and the EV (electric vehicle) revolution. Musk joined in 2004 and provided venture capital funding.

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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

This arrangement was negotiated 25 years ago and is part of a decades-old program of cooperation on nuclear technology, which includes agreements not to use this assistance for military purposes. These agreements often involve the transfer of reactor technology, supply of nuclear fuel, and training of specialists to operate the reactors.

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Quantum computational advantage and beyond

Physics World

He obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2004, and a PhD in physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 2011. Since 2011, he is a Professor of Physics at USTC. Chao-Yang Lu was born in 1982 in Zhejiang, China.

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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

Commenting on the Collection, Aaron Ciechanover who was awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004, said, “Prizes and recognition are not targets that one should aim for. Quasi-Crystal, Not Quasi-Scientist , written by Dan Shechtman , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. Kornberg , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006.

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Secrecy keeps the Nobel prize fresh and exciting

Physics World

My favourite example is the 2009 prize shared by Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith for work done in the 1960s on technologies that eventually made the Internet possible. Indeed, just one year later in 2010 , Andre Geim and Kostantin Novoselov were honoured for their isolation of graphene, which they did in 2004.

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Can High Density Orchards Yield More Crop per Drop?

HumanNature

However, when evaluated on an efficiency basis, HDPs are more efficient in their land, water, light and labor use (Robinson, 2004). 2011; Sofo et al., Physiological and technological barriers to increasing production efficiency and economic sustainability of peach production systems in California. 2004, June. Anthony, B.

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Luzerne County Native Dr. Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada

PA Environment Daily

Moran says her experience of co-leading a 2004 expedition of the first scientific drilling in the Arctic Ocean to obtain sediment and rock samples for climate change research was another cornerstone—partly for proving that drilling could occur in the middle of a moving ice-covered ocean, but mostly due to the results of the research.

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