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Cooperation is known as an effective strategy in nature to achieve individual or common goals and is a key element in evolution for optimization, as Darwin pointed out in his famous work. Cooperation among weaker individuals (such as hyenas) has the potential to outperform stronger individuals (cheetahs) agnostic to the principle of cooperation.

This month's featured IEEE News source is IEEE Societies and Communities Blog.

Legislation to create 55,000 new STEM visas was defeated in Congress on 20 September, despite receiving strong bipartisan support.

While disappointing, the vote does not necessarily preclude further action on a STEM bill later this year.

For more details, please read the article by Russ Harrison at IEEE-USA today’s engineer.