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International collaboration develops progressive vision for urban production at the BMW Group; OMA and 3XN

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Urban Production is an international architecture competition organized by the BMW Group in close cooperation with the City of Munich. The new central building is envisaged as a hub at the heart of the plant, with open-plan work areas that link associates and the production technologies.

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British Airways challenges UK universities to develop a new generation of sustainable aviation fuel; part of $400M investment from parent

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As British Airways looks towards its Centenary next year, the airline, in collaboration with Cranfield University, has challenged academics from across the UK to develop a sustainable alternative fuel which could power a commercial aircraft on a long-haul flight, carrying up to 300 customers with zero net emissions.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. One of his favorite activities, he says, has been building a sense of community among the honor society’s members.

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Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group formed

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—James Turner, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The newly formed organization will host a series of meetings of its members to exchange research results, insights, and ideas. ID-Technologies, Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Building Better Qubits

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While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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Will the "AI Scientist" Bring Anything to Science?

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When an international team of researchers set out to create an “AI scientist” to handle the whole scientific process, they didn’t know how far they’d get. It had “some surprisingly creative ideas,” he says, but those good ideas were vastly outnumbered by bad ones. student taking a wild guess at why something worked,” Lu says.

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IACT team using ALD to build nanobowls for tailored catalysts for biofuel production

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The team, led by Jeffrey Elam, principal chemist in ANL’s Energy Systems Division, will present its research during the AVS 59 th International Symposium and Exhibition , held 28 Oct. Additionally, these extreme conditions can dissolve the support.

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