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Engineering and architecture institutions preparing graduates for international careers – Study International
Engineers and architects are at the forefront of creating eco-friendly solutions, from designing energy-efficient buildings to developing renewable energy systems. For instance, the Bullitt Center in Seattle, often hailed as the greenest commercial building in the world, showcases the innovative work of architects and engineers in creating a self-sustaining structure that significantly reduces its environmental impact. These professioanls are also instrumental in large-scale projects like the Belt and Road Initiative, which spans continents and aims to enhance global trade and economic development
World-first: EVs give power back to grid during outage in Australia – Interesting Engineering
The development of electric vehicles was primarily driven by the need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and lower the impact of climate change. However, a major benefit of EVs was unexplored until a fleet of electric cars supplied power to a grid during a blackout in Canberra.
Scientists discover new hormone in breastfeeding women that helps heal bones faster – Interesting Engineering
Researchers from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and UC Davis discovered a hormone that keeps breastfeeding womens bones strong, and it could help heal fractures, too.
Air Force engineer charged with cover up in Marine KC-130 crash that killed 16 – Task & Purpose
A catastrophic propeller failure that ripped apart a Marine Corps KC-130T during a 2017 flight, killing 15 Marines and one sailor on board, was more than just a mechanical failure, federal prosecutors say. The deadly crash traces back, officials say, to faulty inspections half-a-decade earlier which an Air Force civilian engineer approved and then covered up
Festival celebrates the engineers helping to solve some of the worlds greatest challenges | UCL News – UCL – University College London
An action-packed programme of free interactive events for the whole family will showcase how UCL engineers are creating the future, in fields such as artificial intelligence, space exploration, robotics and medicine. Launching on UN World Youth Skills Day, the first UCL Festival of Engineering will run from 15-20 July 2024 at sites across several London boroughs, from the main UCL campus in Bloomsbury to the UCL East and Here East campuses at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. The Festival celebrates 150 years of pioneering engineering education at UCL that spans traditional disciplines, saw the introduction of the first engineering teaching laboratory in the UK, and has reimagined how engineering is taught globally.
‘Time Traveling’ Quantum Sensor Breakthrough Allows Scientists to Gather Data from the Past – The Debrief
Time travel, widely recognized as a staple of science fiction stories and films, is at least theoretically possible under certain conditions.
Higgs boson God particle still remains a quantum mystery after 12 years – Earth.com
The discovery of the Higgs boson has been a captivating journey for physicists worldwide since the particle was first detected in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) about twelve years ago. This monumental finding, confirming the existence of the elusive particle theorized almost half a century prior, has unlocked new avenues of exploration and understanding in particle physics
Realization of higher-order topological lattices on a quantum computer – Nature.com
Mapping higher-dimensional lattices to 1D quantum chains While small quasi-1D and 2D systems have been simulated on digital quantum computers27,28, the explicit simulation of higher-dimensional lattices remains elusive. Directly simulating a d-dimensional lattice of width L along each dimension requires ~Ld qubits. For large dimensionality d or lattice size L, this quickly becomes infeasible on NISQ devices, which are significantly limited by the number of usable qubits, qubit connectivity, gate errors, and decoherence times.
With spin centers, quantum computing takes a step forward – UC Riverside
Quantum computing, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics, can solve pressing problems in a broad range of fields, from medicine to machine learning, that are too complex for classical computers. Quantum simulators are devices made of interacting quantum units that can be programmed to simulate complex models of the physical world
Guest Post Controlling the Qubits: Overcoming DC Bias and Size Challenges in Quantum – The Quantum Insider
Guest Post by Gobinath Tamil Vanan (bio below) Quantum computing, with its promise of efficient calculations in challenging applications, is rapidly advancing in research and development. The pivotal technology for quantum computing lies in the control and evaluation of qubits.