Liz Ahlberg Touchstone

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
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This image provided by NASA shows four-in-one photos of Mars taken by NASA's Maven spacecraft that's been orbiting the red planet since 2014? Maven is no more, NASA just declared it dead.
NASA Declares Mars Maven Spacecraft Dead After 6 Months of Silence
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This undated rendering provided by Gleason Partners LLC shows shows sections South Side (Mexico) connected like a snake along the border. Solar panels would cover sections of the wall proposed by Las Vegas-based Gleason Partners LLC so it could generate power. The wall's solar panel system would generate 2.0 megawatts of electricity per hour, according to the company's proposal.
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Border Agency Picks Finalists to Design Wall
In this April 11, 2017 photo, numerous cracks run through a basement wall of Tim Heim's home in Willington, Conn. Home foundations in a part of the state are failing because of the presence of the mineral pyrrhotite in the concrete, and a growing number of homeowners are seeking financial relief from their town.
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The researchers made sensors from porous thin films of organic conductive plastics with the goal of portable, disposable devices for medical and environmental monitoring.
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New Sensors Use Your Breath to Detect Diseases
It's a small, thin square of an organic plastic.
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The electroplating method could enable flexible, three-dimensional battery designs. This plated aluminum foil rolled up without cracking.
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It is an entirely new approach to manufacturing battery cathodes.
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