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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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And it's already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the arrival of the future along several dimensions. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Jonathan Weiss/Alamy.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Steven Cherry Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's podcast, Fixing the Future. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. When we come back, I'll ask him to walk us through some of IBM's most difficult moments, and to speculate about its uncertain future.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Steven Cherry Hi this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum’s podcast, Fixing the Future. Fixing the Future is supported by COMSOL, the makers of COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software. You co-wrote an editorial for an article about this vaccine in the New England Journal of Medicine. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch.

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Yissum offering novel high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries; antimony sulphide nanoparticle-coated graphene

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This would allow fast charging of NIBs in the future, which could enable utilization in applications such as electric vehicles. Prikhodchenko, Chad W. The material provides more than two times the capacity of hard carbon, retains its charge capacity even at high current rates, and exhibits a charge and discharge time of 10 minutes.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's podcast, Fixing the Future. It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. Fixing the Future is supported by COMSOL , the makers of COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. For Fixing the Future, I'm Steven Cherry.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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In future measurements, tomography will be used to image complete, intact coolers in three dimensions. Future projects combining these techniques will be required to fully use the potential of additive manufacturing. Future projects combining these techniques will be required to fully use the potential of additive manufacturing.