In our first episode of “STEMTalk With STEMEncounters,” we dive into Quantum Entanglement and how it offers an unprecedented precision for GPS. We look at how GPS signals work and how using photonics sensing and quantum metrology with Quantum Entanglement, we can obtain more precise locations. We talk about how this happens through Materials Science and Engineering and what this could mean for the world.

We, then, understand the opioid epidemic and its history of how it originated from trade and transportation throughout Chinese history—then, in modern times, relating how the opioid epidemic has been affected through STEM, specifically Materials Science and Engineering. How analyzing the composition of opium can allow us to decrease the opioid epidemic overall.

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