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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

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In Georgia Techs design, supercritical carbon dioxide quenches the arc. The use of supercritical CO 2 isnt new , but designing a circuit breaker around it is. They had to go back to the fundamentals of the bushing design to make the whole breaker work, says Enslin. They group is also building a 245-kV version.

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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

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But he did live to see these astrophysical parallels lead to important practical consequences: They helped my group at ASML produce a bright, reliable EUV light source, leading to a major advance in commercial chipmaking. Plenty of pundits suggested that the technology could never be commercialized.

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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For a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. We’re seeing new optimized designs that we weren’t capable of coming up with even 10 years ago. Many magnetic-confinement designs—including the $24.5 its parts hand-labeled in marker.

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This Man Made the Modem in Your Phone a Reality

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to commercialize the technology. In his spare time, he taught a circuit-design class at California State University, Northridge , and then several circuits and signal processing classes at UCLA. Chip design is a very complex and broad discipline, Samueli points out. But many others saw commercial potential in their work.

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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"The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now"

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And thousands of health care providers are burdened with costly, poorly designed, and insecure EHR systems that have exacerbated clinician burnout, led to hundreds of millions of medical records lost in data breaches, and created new sources of medical errors. Poorly designed information systems can also compromise patient safety.

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2025 IEEE Medal of Honor Awarded to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli

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He is being recognized for his pioneering research and commercialization of broadband communication and networking technologies, and promotion of STEM education. students conceived digital signal processing architectures for broadband communications chips and designed the worlds first chips for digital interactive television.