Today's youth has never been more hopeful for a better, brighter, and safer world. Inspired by the desire to impact change in communities far and near, they are using the power of STEM to help drive the change they want to see. 3M (@3M) and Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) are proud to announce the top 10 finalists and four honorable mention recipients in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the 15th year of the competition.

Ceremonial opening of the development and demonstration centre - Minister President Kretschmann: "Research factory will be important future laboratory for companies."

Collaboration between Civan Lasers and TU Wien yields insights on laser welding of stainless-steel tubes with a gap; future work will target welding and additive manufacturing challenges.

Laser experts at the Technical University Wien (TU Wien) in Vienna, have collaborated with Civan Lasers (Jerusalem) to simulate its disruptive dynamic beam laser technology.

Artificial intelligence could help keep sporting competitions clean and fair in the future: Professor Wolfgang Maaß and his team at Saarland University and the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence are researching how to expose doping violations faster and easier with self-learning computer systems. In projects with the World Anti-Doping Agency Wada, the business informatics specialist is working on training data systems that he developed for Industry 4.0 with data from doping controls in order to efficiently uncover sporting cheating.

Compart's cooperation with the Berufsbildungswerk Mosbach-Heidelberg (BBW), which was concluded in mid-2020, is bearing new fruit: thanks to the donation of 3-D printers by Compart, the educational institution has been able to deepen its know-how in this field and gain further supporters in this promising market.

• Gaining knowledge: "AI in Industry" podcast with Arburg development manager, Werner Faulhaber

• Goal-oriented: Arburg drives forward Gestica control system and "Machine Learning"
• Far-sighted: How "intelligent" injection moulding models open new business fields

From bits to qubits, quantum science promises to disrupt the future of business, science and government as billions are invested across the public and private sector
A new Insight Report presents best-practice governance principles to guide future design and adoption as investment boomed.
It is critical to address ethical concerns well before commercialization and set standards now to ensure an equitable framework for the future.

LaserShark: Forscher des KIT untersuchen versteckte Kommunikation über optische Kanäle – Daten lassen sich an bereits in Geräten eingebaute Leuchtdioden übertragen

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania and innovation fostering hub, named its most promising startups slated to disrupt the Lithuanian startup ecosystem in 2022: TransferGo, Ondato, Biomatter Designs, and Wargaming.

Responding to auto industry demand, Civan Lasers, Fraunhofer ILT, and Smart Move to increase bipolar welding feed rate

A team of researchers led by an Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) faculty member performed the first-ever simulation of baryons—fundamental quantum particles—on a quantum computer.

Revolutionary new QUASAR batteries from Eternity Technologies offer longer running time, faster charging & improved performance for material handling applications.