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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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It refers to materials that superconduct above −195.79 °C, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. Brookhaven National Laboratory PROOF OF CONCEPT: A research team led by Brookhaven National Laboratory and ABB built a magnetic energy-storage system using HTS that achieved a 12.5-tesla High temperature” isn’t room temperature.

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European HEFT project seeks lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense PM emotor for EVs

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The consortium of eight European partners in the HEFT project is led by Mondragan University and includes GKN Automotive. The innovations are intended to result in a high-efficient and low-cost solution that will be validated on 2 motor topologies, which will be compared to two main reference automotive IPM commercial motors in Europe (VW ID.3

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Disruption, Disrupted

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The Nature study divides innovation into two categories: disruptive concepts that make old technologies obsolete and concepts that consolidate knowledge based on existing technologies. He demonstrated it by classifying the disruptive and consolidating elements of references in US patents.

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

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In 1912, Oskar von Miller , an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum , had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? The task of realizing those ideas fell to Bauersfeld, a mechanical engineer by training and a managing director at Zeiss.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Kate Keahey, a scientist at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and principal investigator for Chameleon.

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Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance

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Looking up what “prosody” means will absolutely take you down a Wikipedia black hole, but the term broadly refers to parts of speech that aren’t defined by the actual words being spoken. You can imagine how this concept can extend to movements and gestures as well, and effective robot-to-human interaction will need to account for this.

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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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