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In Yemen, we comfort ourselves, thinking: It is not as bad as Gaza | Opinions
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In Yemen, we comfort ourselves, thinking: It is not as bad as Gaza | Opinions

In the first week of April, the United States carried out air raids across Yemen. One strike hit just a street away from...

Home air conditioning units can balance the electrical grid without impacting comfort
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Home air conditioning units can balance the electrical grid without impacting comfort

Credit: CC0 Public Domain While adding wind and solar energy to the electricity supply can help reduce carbon emissions, their intermittency poses a...

Flexible-spoke wheelchair tires offer comfort and efficiency to boost mobility
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Flexible-spoke wheelchair tires offer comfort and efficiency to boost mobility

The testing set-up for the measurement of vertical and rotational stiffness of a commercially available pneumatic wheelchair tire (a,b). Vertical force—deformation (c) and...