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Faraday Institution to award up to £55M to five consortia for energy storage research

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Other university partners are University of Birmingham, University College London, University of Sheffield, University of Southampton and University of Warwick. Other academic partners are University of Cambridge, University College London, Lancaster University, University of Oxford and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

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Former Royal Navy Officer Advocates for LGBTQ+ engineers

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He is a cofounder of InterEngineering , a London-based nonprofit dedicated to greater inclusion in engineering. He was the chief weapon engineer on a naval nuclear submarine and helped upgrade London’s first fully autonomous metro system in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Artisanal Cement Tiles Inspired by Modernist Homes

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Ishkar, a London-based company that collaborates with NGOs and artisans to create job opportunities for those living in isolated areas of countries often affected by war, recently commissioned him to create a capsule collection with women weavers in Afghanistan. Each one took about six months for the women to hand knot from Ghazni Wool.

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12 Days of Giveaways

My Energi

Our ‘12 days of Giveaways’ initiative, begins tomorrow (Wednesday 1 December) until Sunday 12 December and aims to shed light on the environmental impacts of Christmas consumerism. An independent family-run business with seven standalone stores in the UK, including Cleethorpes, Lincoln, Beverley, Knutsford, Grimsby, Windermere and London.

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My Energi - Untitled Article

My Energi

Our ‘12 days of Giveaways’ initiative, begins tomorrow (Wednesday 1 December) until Sunday 12 December and aims to shed light on the environmental impacts of Christmas consumerism. An independent family-run business with seven standalone stores in the UK, including Cleethorpes, Lincoln, Beverley, Knutsford, Grimsby, Windermere and London.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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John McCarthy , then a young professor at Dartmouth, had coined the term "artificial intelligence" when he wrote his proposal for the workshop, which he said would explore the hypothesis that "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.".

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science.