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ARPA-type funding gives green technology an ‘innovation advantage’, study finds

14 September 2020

Startups funded by US agency ARPA-E file patents at twice the rate of similar cleantech firms. The UK should trial its own climate-focused ARPA as part of COVID-19 recovery package, argues a Cambridge professor.

Grasshopper of Acrididae family: Anacridium aegyptium

How to cut your lawn for grasshoppers

22 November 2017

Picture a grasshopper landing randomly on a lawn of fixed area. If it then jumps a certain distance in a random direction, what shape should the lawn be to maximise the chance that the grasshopper stays on the lawn after jumping?

A composite image of the region around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. X-ray emission is shown in blue.

Our galaxy’s giant black hole rejects ‘food’ because it’s too ‘hot’

29 August 2013

Astronomers working with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have seen the giant black hole Sagittarius A* rejecting its ‘food’ of vast gas clouds as they aren’t sufficiently cool enough for it to swallow.

Articles about 'University of Massachusetts'

ARPA-type funding gives green technology an ‘innovation advantage’, study finds

How to cut your lawn for grasshoppers

Our galaxy’s giant black hole rejects ‘food’ because it’s too ‘hot’

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