Rather than small silica beads, Blue Frontier’s cooling technology relies on a salt solution that’s so concentrated, it can pull moisture from the air. Here’s how...
Like most of the projects Mueller chooses to pursue, these bring the things you can do on a computer into the physical realm. But speaking more...
In the show, a band of special-effects pros tested out myths from TV shows or popular knowledge, like: Can a snowplow flip a car over? Can...
This study only focused on technologies that generate electricity. It didn’t include all the materials that would be needed to store and use that electricity, like...
Powering the world with renewable energy will take a lot of raw materials. The good news is, when it comes to aluminum, steel, and rare-earth metals,...
It will probably take until 2024 for the treaty to be completed, and we don’t know all the details yet, though there’s been talk of production...
Both public and private funding for battery manufacturing in the US have exploded, sped by the passage earlier this year of the Inflation Reduction Act, which...
The new tool, ProteinMPNN, described by a group of researchers from the University of Washington in two papers published in Science today (available here and here),...
Thanks to this built-in responsiveness, future materials could be made with some decision-making capabilities and adaptability. Intelligent materials may be able to automatically release precise amounts...
Optical computing, an early approach that was later abandoned in favor of binary electronic circuitry, is also moving forward. I am fascinated by the possibility of...
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