Ken Kingery

Duke University
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In this Friday, June 16, 2017, photo, hydraulic engineering professor Michael Johnson looks at the water flow on a replica of the Oroville Dam spillway at Utah State University's Water Research Laboratory, in Logan, Utah. California water officials are relying on key hydrology tests being performed on the replica of the spillway to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest dam in the U.S for a spillway that was torn apart in February.
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In this Sunday, June 25, 2017, photo released by SpaceX, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen before lift off Sunday, carrying 10 more satellites for Iridium Communications, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. SpaceX has succeeded in landing a Falcon 9 first-stage booster on a vessel in the Pacific after a launch from California. The rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1:25 p.m. Sunday. It was carrying 10 satellites for Iridium Communications. The first-stage booster landed about 7 minutes later. The Falcon's second stage is continuing to carry the satellites toward orbit.
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This robot can out the source of an ethanol leak in a clever way. Rather than just following the strongest scent, the robot plugs measurements of concentration and airflow into a complex partial differential equation and then decides where the most useful position to take another measurement is. By repeating this process, it can find an ethanol source in just a dozen or two tries in a complex environment with multiple sources.
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Robot Sniffs Out Toxic Leaks
It makes calculations on the fly to account for complex airflows rather than simply 'following its nose.'
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A view of a microwave scan of a typical wall interior before and after distortions have been removed. By taking into account the types of distortions typically created by flat, uniform walls, the new algorithm allows for better scans without needing to know what the wall is made of beforehand.
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Researchers Find Way to See Through Walls
Most technologies that can see through walls are expensive. This one isn't.
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Duke engineering professor Michael Bergin (left) stands with Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar colleague Chinmay Ghoroi (right) next to that university's extremely dusty solar panel array.
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Pollution Drastically Impacting Solar Power
Global solar energy production is taking a major hit due to air pollution and dust.
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