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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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After graduating in 2005 from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , with a doctorate in physics, Agrawal decided to move to the United Kingdom. “I It provides women of color a safe space to connect with each other. If you want to make a change in a very difficult and unchanging environment, you must be disruptive.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. The 17 teams hailed from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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The arrival of this magnetic material in the United States led to renewed enthusiasm for magnetic amplifiers, which tolerated extreme conditions and didn’t burn out like vacuum tubes. Mag amps thus found many applications in demanding environments, especially military, space, and industrial control. During the 1950s, the U.S.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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There’s good reason for this hustle: The United Kingdom wants to add 34 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, en route to decarbonizing its grid by 2035. They are making sure that everything works in this moving environment,” he says. But the shallow waters east of London are already packed with wind turbines.

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