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Five Canadian and developing country teams awarded total of C$12.5M to study climate change adaptation

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Their projects and respective team leads are: Coastal Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacity for Managing Climate Change in Coastal Megacities. Adapting to Climate Change: Protecting Water Resources in West Africa and Canada. Murray Simpson, the CARIBSAVE Partnership, Barbados; Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo, Canada.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I The Ability Hand is also water-resistant, Akhtar says. Akhtar is the CEO. ARM WRESTLING WITH A BIONIC HAND!?!?!?!

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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One will provide Internet to rural Peru, two will service airplanes and cruise liners, and the final satellite’s use is yet to be disclosed. The wind part of the project plans a total of 3,000 megawatts from wind farms it will build in three counties in New Mexico. That same year, the company plans to launch four more microGEOs.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. Previously, land between airports had been represented by patches of color—green for forests, gray for urban, blue for water. In retrospect, ESP feels like a predecessor to modern efforts to build “digital twins” to simulate and replicate real-world environments. The Blackshark.ai

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Adani Group’s USD 1.2-bn copper plant to boost India’s metal production – ET Auto

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” New Delhi: Billionaire Gautam Adani-led group is building the world’s largest single-location copper manufacturing plant at Mundra in Gujarat, which will help cut India’s dependence on imports and aid energy transition , sources said. India imports roughly two million tonnes of sulphuric acid.

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