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Highly Selective Catalysts via Robots and A.I. Teams
Creating an A.I. tool for chemical reaction design is challenging, especially for complex catalytic reactions.…
Temperature-sensing Materials Could (Eventually) Reduce Energy Bills
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) are too cool for…
50-Meter Laser Experiment Sets Record
Where’s Guinness when you need him? It happened at UMD’s Energy Research Facility—Physics Professor Howard…
Where to Shelter During a Nuclear Explosion
During the cold war between the U.S. and Soviet Union (USSR), people built fallout shelters to protect themselves…
A First: Robot Able to Smell
We've come a long way. Eight years ago, I updated an article series I originally contributed to Digi-Key in 2011.…
Warming Trend Heats up the Record Books
According to analysis by NASA, Earth's average temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as our planet's warmest on…
Machine Learning Could Predict Disastrous Events
I had a dog named Murphy that could predict earthquakes. About an hour before they happened, Murphy would grow…
Machine Learning Yields an Unprecedented View of Small Molecules
Researchers expect a new machine-learning model to identify small molecules for such applications as medicine, drug…
Making the Next Generation of Designers
by Jon Gabay, engineer
Each generation of engineers brings new technologies to the table... and forgets many of…
Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore Lab Makes Fusion History
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced fusion…