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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future?

Futurum

At each stage of transporting this electricity, from wind farm to National Grid to your house to your phone, a small amount of electricity is wasted as it heats up the transistors it travels through. Electrical engineering The transport industry is a significant contributor to carbon dioxide emissions.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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Bioelectricity: Electricity’s Shocking Role in the Human Body

STEMe

Since cell membranes are full of ways to transport these ions, like leaky channels or pumps, your neurons can create these gradients and transport the resulting signals through other nearby neurons in a network spanning your body called the nervous system. By controlling how much specific charged elements (e.g.

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Controlling and engineering systems for the benefit of all

Futurum

Importantly, the applications for the intended outcomes of this project extend to fields as diverse as aerospace, healthcare, infrastructure and transport. Zi-Qiang suggests students take as many maths courses as possible, as well as one or two other science subjects, such as physics, chemistry or biology. • Key findings and successes.

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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale? What research is Evelyn conducting?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. This equivalence has many consequences.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

The energy of the particles is indicated here by the size of the “token dots”: Continuing this a few more steps we get: At the beginning we started with all particles having equal energies.