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<p>The heat is on, at least in the Arctic.</p>
<p>Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says a new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study.</p></div>

<p>The heat is on, at least in the Arctic.</p>
<p>Average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic during the last 100 years are higher now than during any century in the past 44,000 years and perhaps as long ago as 120,000 years, says a new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study.</p>

<p>A new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study indicates drought high in the northern Colorado mountains is the primary trigger of a massive spruce beetle outbreak that is tied to long-term changes in sea-surface temperatures from the Northern Atlantic Ocean, a trend that is expected to continue for decades.</p>

<p>A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics by researchers at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Micron Technology Inc. could allow for the trajectory of exponential improvement in microprocessors that began nearly half a century ago—known as Moore’s Law—to continue well into the future, allowing for increasingly faster electronics, from supercomputers to laptops to smartphones.</p>

<p>A Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ professor has been awarded a three-year, $3.6 million grant from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new process to produce magnesium that can be used to make lightweight vehicle parts.</p>

<p>A cutting-edge battery technology developed at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ that could allow tomorrow’s electric vehicles to travel twice as far on a charge is now closer to becoming a commercial reality.</p>
<p>CU’s Technology Transfer Office has completed an agreement with Solid Power LLC—a CU-Boulder spinoff company founded by Se-Hee Lee and Conrad Stoldt, both associate professors of mechanical engineering—for the development and commercialization of an innovative solid-state rechargeable battery. </p>

<p>The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ has launched a flood resource website and is hosting a resource table to help students, faculty and staff who are still dealing with effects from the flood.</p>

<p>Scientists have uncovered strong evidence that soot, or black carbon, sent into the air by a rapidly industrializing Europe, likely caused the abrupt retreat of mountain glaciers in the European Alps.</p>

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<p>DOE news release</p>
<p>Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). The nineteen member board comprised of scientists, business executives, academics and former government officials will serve as an independent advisory committee to Energy Secretary Moniz.</p></div></div>

<p><span>The spacecraft for NASA’s Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission to Mars being led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ has arrived in Florida in anticipation of a November launch.</span></p>
<p>The spacecraft was shipped on Friday, Aug. 2, aboard a U.S. Air Force cargo plane from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo., to the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Fla. Lockheed Martin had previously assembled and tested MAVEN in its Littleton, Colo., facility.</p>