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MIT Makes Steel with Electricity

Boston Metal, an MIT spinout, is ready to commercialize a new steelmaking method that can potentially clean up steel’s dirty processes. Typically, making steel involves mining iron ore, reducing it in a blast furnace with the addition of…

NIST Framework to Evolve

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) framework defines specific cyber workforce roles. They recently added new competency areas and updated skills and tasks to help agencies better understand and meet their cyber…

The Placebo Effect of AI

A new study from Aalto University in Finland suggests that people perform better when they use AI because they expect to perform better. During the research, participants completed a simple letter recognition exercise. They did the task…

Can Schmaltz be Energy Storage?

When I read that scientists are converting chicken fat into energy storage devices, I immediately thought of Schmaltz. Researchers published an ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report on a method to transform chicken fat into…