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engineering

noun as in the act of turning material to use

noun as in the science of applying power to use

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Governing everything that happens in the Extreme Machine is a convergence of physical laws and engineering constraints summed up as the reticle limit.

Thomas Wood, a professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, and his team have uncovered a long-overlooked bacterial mechanism that helps protect against viral infection.

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The project has already picked up a number of awards for its engineering and construction but the biggest ambition is to take away the scenes witnessed in years gone by.

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Leonora is clear that the success of AI to tackle gender-based violence depends not just on engineering, but on who gets to design technology in the first place.

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“Sometimes we have to delete nearly 150 or 200 videos because of silly errors in how we’re folding or placing items,” said Kumar, an engineering graduate who has worked at Objectways for six years.

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