Artificial swamp plants purify sewage and cut costs
In Ithaca area tests a hydroponic artificial marsh treats raw sewage through cattails and elephant grass, producing clean water and methane for energy. Researchers say small towns could use plant-based systems to replace aging plants and reduce pollution at a profit.
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Thaca
N.Y
South
William Jewell
Cornell University
Ithaca
State Energy Office
The
Gas Research Institute
Jewell
B.C. Wolverton
NASA
National Space Technology Laboratory
Bay St. Louis
Miss
Wolverton
San Diego
Japan offers funds to train U.S. scientists and engineers
Under a pact with the United States, Japan will spend 4 million dollars to invite U.S. scientists to Japan, open labs to Americans, and raise foreign scholarships from 28 to 200, as Washington presses for more research funding and balanced researcher flow.
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Tokyo
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United States
Ronald Reagan
Noboru Takeshita
U.S
Washington
Japan Center
University of North Carolina
America
Tokyo University
Shoji Tanaka
Legsworth Poses in Central Park with New Prosthetic Leg
Legsworth models a new prosthetic leg in New York City’s Central Park. The device, crafted by Sabolich Prosthetic and Research Center in Oklahoma City, is touted as state of the art in artificial limbs.
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Ivy Gunter
New York
Central Park
Sabolich Prosthetic and Research Center
Oklahoma City
Observing the City: Naval Observatory Seeks Buffer Zone
The U S Naval Observatory urges Washington to create a special district and tighten height rules west of its 72 acre hilltop site to protect precise star measurements from heat plumes. It seeks a 750 foot buffer and 40 foot grade-based height limit to preserve accuracy for navigation and celestial observation.
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Washington
U.S. Naval Observatory
Congress
District of Columbia
Observatory
Naval Observatory
James Hughes
Astrometry
Anawalt
Saturn
Alpha Centauri
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