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United Airlines and Archer to launch first commercial electric air taxi route in Chicago

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Archer Aviation and United Airlines plan to launch the first air taxi route in Chicago, between O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and Vertiport Chicago. Vertiport Chicago, North America’s largest vertical aircraft take off and landing facility, is located in the Illinois Medical District near the Chicago Loop.

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Stellantis Continues Snubbing North American Auto Shows

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note -- We've reached out to Stellantis and the Chicago Auto Show to see if Stellantis will be at next month's Chicago Auto Show. Stellantis told us they would not, on the corporate end, and referred us to the earlier statement.

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Haptic System Creates Finger-Touch Sensations Hardware-Free?

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Researchers from the University of Chicago have figured out a clever way around this problem. In some places, including in the fingers, referred sensation can be targeted with a reasonable amount of precision. But on contact, it does feel like a tap on my skin, which is pretty realistic.

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Argonne and RIKEN sign MOU in support of petascale computing

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Petascale computing refers to a computer system capable of reaching performance in excess of one petaflops—one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Earlier post.).

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IEEE STEM Activity Kits Are In Demand at 150 U.S. Public Libraries

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Currently all 80 branches of the Chicago Public Library have the kits, as do libraries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Zulaski ran the idea past the IEEE Chicago Section , which agreed to provide funding.

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UB study finds link between ambient ozone exposure, artery wall thickness

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Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; and Los Angeles. Atherosclerosis refers to the build-up of plaque, or fatty deposits, in the artery walls, which, over time, restricts blood flow through the arteries. Participants were enrolled in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and have been followed for more than a decade.

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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The largest greening BUAs are Pearl River Delta (PRD), Tokyo, Yangtze River Delta (YRD), Miami, Beijing, Chicago, Seoul, Tianjin, São Paulo, and Osaka. Of the 841 cities studied, 325 showed significant greening with more than 10% of greening BUAs. 101 of these are located in China.

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