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The 2024 Not-a-Boring Competition kicks off with 130 students

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Swissloop Tunneling won the Innovation Award, while CU Hyperloop took home the Accuracy and Navigation Award in the 2023 Not-a-Boring Competition. Registration for the 2025 Not-a-Boring Competition is officially open. The 2025 Not-a-Boring Competitions will challenge competition teams over 8 days and will be held in Bastrop, Texas.

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SOFC company FCET signs MoU regarding purchase of fuel cells for locomotives

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Locomotives have for some time been considered a prime target for new and renewable propulsion technology, but this collaboration may result in the first rail application of a fuel cell in the United States.

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NATO-funded Serbian-led project developing biofuel from algae

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The project is supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme and is carried out by Belgrade’s Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in cooperation with Manchester University in the United Kingdom and Baylor University in the United States.

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Hyundai Motor Group appoints NASA research exec to lead new Urban Air Mobility division

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Shin co-chaired the White House National Science and Technology Council's Aeronautics Science and Technology Subcommittee, which wrote the United States’ first presidential policy for aeronautics research and development. Shin has authored and co-authored more than 20 technical and journal papers.

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12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022

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There's a fair bit of talk about an AI race between China and the United States these days. When it comes to cross-country collaborations on publications, China and the United States produce more than twice as many as the next pairing, China and the United Kingdom. Universities Are Crawling With CS Students.

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China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

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China is in the middle of a big buildup of its nuclear-weapon arsenal,” says Frank von Hippel , a physicist and nuclear-policy expert at Princeton University. “My My belief is that one of the purposes of these reactors is to produce weapons-grade plutonium for that buildup.”.

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Rule Britannia: Can the UK Set Global AI Standards?

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Mitchell is director of policy at BCS , the Chartered Institute for IT in the United Kingdom, and the lead author of a new proposal to the UK's government for a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy. The United Kingdom could effectively lead the world for AI standards if its rules are strong and well-designed. (By

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