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Toyota Research Institute and Northwestern partner to accelerate new materials discovery with nanomaterial data factory; fuel cell catalysts first

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Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Northwestern University are collaborating to help accelerate new materials discovery, design and development with the world’s first nanomaterial “data factory.”. —Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Earlier post.).

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Wisconsin, GLBRC researchers use chemical genomics to engineer IL-resistant yeast to improve biofuel production

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and colleagues have engineered a new strain of the yeast S. The technique of chemical genomics-guided bio-design is novel, and rich in potential for future applications. —Dickinson et al. Myers, Charles Boone, Joshua J.

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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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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. Dr. Lee Harrison is a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he’s the Associate Chief of Epidemiology and Education. Fixing the Future is supported by COMSOL, the makers of COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software.

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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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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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You wanted to know what the future of Moore’s Law is and who would be making it happen. Universities Are Building a Semiconductor Workforce Peter Adams With the U.S. You can hear about both in this episode of IEEE Spectrum’ s Fixing the Future podcast. For instance, you liked scandal and speed.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.

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