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UPASS Go By Nedap: Secure Vehicle Entry Control | Security News
As part of the extensive uPASS lineup, this latest addition benefits from Nedap's extensive expertise in passive UHF solutions, providing quick and secure vehicle identification, maintaining traffic flow, and ensuring a seamless entry experience. Nedap, with over 30 years of experience in automatic vehicle identification, engineered the uPASS Go to offer a balanced mix of cost-effectiveness and advanced technology...
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SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos) | Space
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Is it the future yet? | Factor This Brief
As the reality of nuclear fusion approaches, Base Power attracts a billion bucks and launches a new battery, Eolian starts construction on PJM's biggest BESS, Avantus doubles its credit facility, Antares raises $470M for microreactors, and Sungrow commissions a critical solar-plus-storage project ...
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Congress could undermine NC’s biotech boom
North Carolina’s life sciences ... to advanced manufacturing and cell and gene therapy development, many of the state’s most promising medical breakthroughs begin as small, high-risk ventures that rely on sustained private investment....
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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data | MIT Technology Review
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be finished by the end of the ...
Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily
July 5, 2026 Quantum mechanics ... strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced technologies. Now researchers are pushing its boundaries even further, with potential breakthroughs in energy, medicine, ... Millions of Exploding Stars Could Soon Reveal Dark Energy's Secrets · June 29, 2026 A new AI-powered framework ...
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Climate Reports | United Nations
The report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability warns that climate change is causing dangerous disruption in nature and is affecting billions of people, stressing the urgency to act.
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