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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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One of the greatest climate -related engineering challenges right now is the design and construction of a large, zero-emission, passenger airliner. Airbus hopes to achieve such a large efficiency gain by exploiting emerging advances in jet engines, wings, lightweight, high-strength composite materials, and sustainable aviation fuel.

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Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests

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The building is home to the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute , part of Victoria University of Wellington. Its a class of electric propulsion that uses an applied magnetic field to accelerate ions to extremely high speeds, says Randy Pollock , the chief engineer for space at Paihau-Robinson, during a visit to their labs.

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The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

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That Paris event made me realize that quantum engineering has evolved very differently from, say, nanotechnology. Quantum engineering involves math and phenomena that are fundamentally different from the classical physics engineers have so successfully exploited up to now. According to IEEE Life Member Hausi A.

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A Crucial Optical Technology Has Finally Arrived

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Weve been waiting for CPO forever, says Clint Schow , a co-packaged optics expert and IEEE Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara, who has been researching the technology for 20 years. The engineering involved is so complex, Schow doesnt think its worthwhile unless doing things the old way is broken.

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Faster, Safer Cars Come Into Focus With New Optical Network Tech

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“I think the car of the future will be a moving data center equipped with a high-performance computer (HPC), numerous sensors, 6G radio systems, and an optical backbone network to connect them all,” says Hiroyuki Tsuda , an electrical and computer engineering professor at Keio University in Tokyo.

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Bell Labs Turns 100, Plans to Leave Its Old Headquarters

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A 100 gigahertz link using the tech was deployed at the Paris Olympics in 2024, and a commercial product is on the roadmap for 2027. In a panel discussion about the future of innovation, Princeton engineering dean Andrea Goldsmith said, Ive never been more worried about the innovation ecosystem in the US.

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Prototype Computer Uses Noise to Its Advantage

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Were focusing on algorithms that are able to leverage noise, stochasticity, and non-determinism, says Zachery Belateche , silicon engineering lead at Normal Computing. But at the same time, there is a lot to be worked to really take it from what is today to commercial product to something that can be used at the scale.