In the fall of 2018, the University of California tasked a team of researchers with identifying projects from which it could confidently purchase carbon offsets that...
GNoME can be described as AlphaFold for materials discovery, according to Ju Li, a materials science and engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AlphaFold,...
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...
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...
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),...
In the long term, such photonic circuits could help us approach or perhaps even surpass widely accepted limits in computing. Theoretical work in photonic information processing...
But stability remains a tough challenge. In one recent study, published in Science in April, researchers discovered a new way to build perovskite solar cells with...