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State Board Of Education Publishes Final Education Standards For Science, Environment, Ecology, Technology & Engineering Grades K-12

PA Environment Daily

During the public comment period over 1,400 comments were received addressing the proposed revision of the PA Science, Technology, Environment and Ecology Standards. The majority of comments were on the Standards for the Environment and Ecology.

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How the Netherlands is forging ahead in quantum technologies

Physics World

I graduated from the Technical University of Delft’s Policy Analysis and Systems Engineering department in 1999 and after a two-year stint at KPN Research as a consultant, I joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs as an adviser in 2002. My role is to foster the best ecosystem for quantum technology development. How will that be spent?

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Progress Continues for US Residential Solar: Reviewing the Latest Numbers

Union of Concerned Scientists

percent for systems installed in 2002 to 20.1 Part of that progress is due to the increasing dominance of more-efficient mono-crystalline technologies (the ones with smooth-looking single-crystal cells). LBNL also mentions the increasing use of passivated emitter rear-cell technology, or PERC. . Source: LBNL 2022.

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Molecular engineering of photoinduced charge separation

Physics World

Since 2002, he has been a professor of chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. In 1992, he became an assistant professor, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, Japan, and then moved to the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, as an associate professor.

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Microfluidic systems for the skin: Quantitative sensing of biomarkers in sweat

Physics World

Recent advances in materials, mechanics, and manufacturing establish the foundations for high-performance classes of microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technologies that have physical properties matched to those of human skin. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience.

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Life beyond the Nobel: Takaaki Kajita and the hunt for gravitational waves

Physics World

The work led him to sharing the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physics for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. Physics World ‘s Nobel prize coverage is supported by Oxford Instruments Nanoscience , a leading supplier of research tools for the development of quantum technologies, advanced materials and nanoscale devices.

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PA Mine Map Atlas Has Served State Since The Quecreek Mine Rescue In Somerset County

PA Environment Daily

In July 2002, in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, miners accidentally breached the wall of an adjacent abandoned, flooded mine. The technology was not quite where it needed to be to develop what we wanted at that time. We did a lot of brainstorming and came up with ideas about how it would work,” she said.

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