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You’ve just attended an exciting concert by your favorite musical group. In the car on the way home and over the next few days, you catch yourself replaying its songs in your head. You “hear” the music in your brain—the melodies, the fast and slow parts, even the dramatic pause before one last refrain of the chorus. The term for this is “musical imagery”—the voluntary internal hearing of music in the mind without the need for physical action or external stimulation.

Released today by the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, a new analysis offers plant-by-plant strategies for retiring coal-fired power plants globally and highlights pathways from ten countries accounting for over 90% of global total coal power capacity and nearly 72% of total global GHG emissions.

Yifei Mo and Liangbing Hu, both professors in the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), in collaboration with research teams at Northwestern and Lehigh Universities, have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $1.8 million for their project entitled "Accelerated Data-Driven Discovery of Ion-Conducting Materials."