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Rivian collaborates with non-profit to preserve biodiversity and fight climate change

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We're excited to collaborate with @nature_org to help protect our land and water. Rivian and TNC solidified their partnership on a trip through the Nachusa Grasslands , just a few hours away from the EV maker’s manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois. It was only right a camping trip led to this.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, Psyonic has received funding from the University of Illinois Technology Entrepreneur Center , the iVenture Accelerator , and the U.S.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs. I accepted the award on behalf of all of us.”

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How the First Transistor Worked

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In the cutaway photo of a point-contact, two thin conductors are visible; these connect to the points that make contact with a tiny slab of germanium. Think about slowly pouring a small amount of fine powder onto the surface of water. Now we connect the collector. He is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in physics.)

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. It didn’t depict real airspace or modern airplanes.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. heating and water purification. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. Chromatin, Inc.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. Or if you want to vote in person, ballots and ballot boxes are available at the front. And in fact, I invite you to just do it personally.

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