SOUTHFIELD–Lawrence Technological University’s Formula Electric motorsports team earned a third-place finish in national competition. The Formula Hybrid and Electric competition took place earlier this month at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. A total of 17 teams from the United States and Canada participated in the event for half-scale Indy-style race cars powered by
ANN ARBOR–Roger Blake, currently at Palo Alto Networks, has been selected as the president and CEO of Merit Network Inc. Blake spent four years at Palo Alto, working as a sales manager for government and education, and later public sector account manager. Prior to tht he spent over 11 years as a regional vice president
EVANSVILLE, Ind.–Metronet, the nation’s largest independently owned 100% fiber data network, announced that construction of new networks has begun in Portage in Kalamazoo County and Kentwood in Kent County. The installation will allow residents and businesses in those communities access to multi-gigabit data access. In Portage, the company said construction has begun near the intersection
DEARBORN–Ford Motor Co. Announced it had reached an agreement with Tesla Motors that will provide Ford electric vehicle customers access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada, doubling the number of fast-chargers available to Ford EV customers starting next spring. “This is great news for our customers who will have unprecedented
WASHINGTON DC - The regulatory body that oversees the nation's power grid cast a bit of a chill over the coming warm months cautioning that the country might not generate enough electric power to meet demand. Coming after multiple warnings from regulators, grid operators, and industry experts that enthusiasm for retiring old-school "dirty" generating capacity
LONDON, UK - Climate change will reduce the land available for coffee by 54% by 2100 even if global temperatures are contained to internationally agreed targets, according to a new report. Coffee growers from Honduras to Ethiopia said they are already suffering from climate destabilization and the charity Christian Aid is calling on the U.K.
BEIJING, China - China's largest carmaker SAIC Group expects to see its first model with solid-state battery roll off the assembly line in two years, as more local carmakers target the new battery technology for a longer range. SAIC is ramping up its research and development work on solid-state battery cells and is making every
WASHINGTON DC - NASA will hold a historic public meeting on UFOs this week and you can watch it all live online in a free webcast. The agency will hold a meeting of the "independent study group" it formed nearly a year ago in June 2022 in order to study data related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP),
LONDON, UK - A new study shows that interest in studying UFOs/UAPs as reached mainstream academia and many are pushing for further academic research on the subject. Over a third (37%) of US academics are interested in researching UFOs while a large minority (19%) have either witnessed or know someone who has witnessed unidentified aerial/anomalous phenomena (UAPs),
JERUSALEM, Israel - An experimental treatment developed at Israel's Hadassah-University Medical Center has a 90% success rate at bringing patients with multiple myeloma into remission. Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem has announced an “unprecedented achievement” in the treatment of multiple myeloma cancer – the second-most common hematological disease. It accounts for one-tenth of all
