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Michael Frank has spent his career as an academic researcher working over three decades in a very peculiar niche of computer engineering. According to Frank, that peculiar niche's time has finally come. “I decided earlier this year that it was the right time to try to commercialize this stuff,” Frank says. In July 2024, he left his position as a senior engineering scientist at Sandia National Laboratories to join a startup, U.S.- and U.K.-based Vaire Computing.

Van Wendel de Joode focuses her research on how prenatal and childhood exposure to pesticides affects health and development in rural areas of the country. Community members in the Red Water Pond Road area also helped Lewis and her team design the Navajo Birth Cohort Study, which followed pregnant women and their babies through the children's first year of life, tracing their development, health and environmental exposure to toxic metals. This sensor network is also advancing Amegah's epidemiology research, which centers on the health of street vendors, who are exposed to high levels of emissions from aging cars and two-stroke motorcycle engines. Today Amegah has sensors mounted in schools, hospitals and traffic hotspots and is connecting the data to health outcomes for street vendors and children. [Extracted from the article]

Many of the scenarios for achieving net-zero carbon emissions from power generation by 2050 hinge on the success of some hugely ambitious initiatives. Perhaps none are more audacious than an envisioned renaissance of nuclear power driven by advanced-technology power reactors that are smaller than traditional ones.

Inside a balmy greenhouse in central Illinois, a boisterous but focused pair of researchers are seeding experimental plants. The scientists moisten the soil and pack it into pots, then carefully [...]

At Corning's headquarters in upstate New York, three people in bulky masks and silvery, spacesuit-like gear are working the research furnaces. They move gracefully and in harmony. They have to, [...]

The reactor transforms methane into carbon dioxide, which could lower the planet's net warming rate because methane is a stronger greenhouse gas. Turning methane into CO2 may sound counterproductive, but it reduces warming overall because methane traps much more heat than CO2 and is far less abundant in the atmosphere. Methane emissions in 2022, by source Methane emitted (metric tons) Methane culprits Experts estimate that in 2022, about 590 million metric tons of methane were released into the atmosphere. SOURCE: GLOBAL METHANE TRACKER/IEA 2023 Global average methane concentrations, 1983-2023 On the rise Over the last 40 years, the concentration of methane in the atmosphere has steadily risen, with a lull in the late 1990s and 2000s. [Extracted from the article]

Featuring Aleksandra Vojvodic / Jia Zhu / Yihui Zhang / Qing Cao / Oriol Vinyals / Ying Diao / Vivian Ferry / Sergey Levine Aleksandra Vojvodic University of Pennsylvania A [...]

Featuring Alex Hegyi / Evan Macosko / Wei Gao / Muyinatu Lediju Bell / Adam Bry / Kendra Kuhl / Desmond Loke / Jiawei Gu / Dinesh Bharadia Alex Hegyi [...]