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‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

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Aquagga Photo) It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. The long-lived chemicals are great at deflecting water, stains and grease — but they escape from products and now contaminate drinking water across the nation and are even detected in breast milk.

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NASA joins forces with DARPA on effort to demonstrate nuclear rocket for Mars trips

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DARPA had already been working with commercial partners — including Blue Origin , the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, as well as Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies , or USNC-Tech — on the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations program, also known as DRACO.

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Sustainable Petrochemical Company Expands Risk-Based Inspection Philosophy

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As a global chemical company and producer of PET, Indorama Ventures Limited (IVL) has made sustainability a priority for over a decade, from energy and greenhouse gas reductions to increased renewable energy and recycling. This disparity could lead to minor or even catastrophic chemical releases. “In

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DARPA boosts Microsoft’s far-out effort to build topological quantum computer

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Microsoft is one of three companies selected to present design concepts as part of a five-year program known as Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing , or US2QC. In the program’s initial phase, each of the companies will present a design concept describing their plans to create a utility-scale quantum computer.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

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Ukrainian firms like Enamine, Life Chemicals, and OTAVAchemicals provide chemistry services and about 80% of the world’s compounds used for drug screening. The Seattle office of the nonprofit World Affairs Council is hosting the delegates as part of the Open World Program , established in 1999 by the U.S.

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DARPA and NASA pick Lockheed Martin to demonstrate DRACO nuclear rocket

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The DRACO program aims to give the nation leap-ahead propulsion capability,” Tabitha Dodson, DARPA’s program manager for the effort, said today in a news release. “An An NTR achieves high thrust similar to in-space chemical propulsion but is two to three times more efficient.

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OSIRIS-REx probe touches down to grab bits of an asteroid, with assist from Aerojet

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Beth Buck, mission operations program manager for Lockheed Martin, said the experience wasn’t anything like the “seven minutes of terror” that precede a Mars landing. The OSIRIS-REx team took it slow and steady, sending commands that took the spacecraft through a four-hour descent sequence.