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Think about your neighborhood. Where are the stores or doctor's offices? How easy is it to access fresh food? Human mobility researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are providing information on access to essential services in communities by creating synthetic populations that mirror real neighborhoods and observing how transportation routes around the area support or detract from the residents' quality of life.

Self-driving cars occasionally crash because their visual systems can't always process static or slow-moving objects in 3D space. In that regard, they're like the monocular vision of many insects, whose compound eyes provide great motion-tracking and a wide field of view but poor depth perception.

From keeping warm in the winter to doing laundry, heat is crucial to daily life. But as the world grapples with climate change, buildings' increasing energy consumption is a critical problem. Currently, heat is produced by burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas, but that will need to change as the world shifts to clean energy.

A team of engineers from Tsinghua University, working at China's high-temperature reactor with a pebble-bed module (HTR-PM), claims that the reactor has passed a critical cooling test. In their study, published in Joule, the group turned off external power to the reactor to test its cooling abilities over two days.

Australia's clean energy transition is already underway, driven by solar, wind, batteries and new transmission lines.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers at the Biohybrid and Organic Robotics Group (B.O.R.G.) led by Victoria Webster-Wood, in collaboration with researchers at Case Western Reserve University, are studying the sea slug feeding structure to learn more about how the brain, muscular system and nervous system interact. Their research is being used both in robots and in simulations as part of a multinational research collaboration studying neuromuscular systems.

In an era where the internet connects virtually every aspect of our lives, the security of information systems has become paramount. Safeguarding critical databases containing private and commercial information presents a formidable challenge, driving researchers to explore advanced encryption techniques for enhanced protection.

Methanol is a crucial chemical feedstock and a potential green fuel, particularly for the shipping industry. Currently, its production predominantly relies on fossil feedstocks, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions.

Organizations are increasingly utilizing machine-learning models to allocate scarce resources or opportunities. For instance, such models can help companies screen resumes to choose job interview candidates or aid hospitals in ranking kidney transplant patients based on their likelihood of survival.

The hydrothermal explosion took place near Biscuit Basin's Sapphire Pool on Tuesday morning, erupting boiling water and steam into the air, officials said.

An incredible video captured the moment a whale off the coast of New Hampshire capsized a boat, sending two men flying into the ocean.

Earth sizzled to its hottest day ever measured by humans Monday, beating a record set the day before, the European climate service Copernicus says.

Researchers said mammoth genes were inserted into a sheep cell.

With the proliferation of solar panels and wind turbines an unusual phenomenon is becoming more and more frequent: wholesale electricity prices turn negative.

Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology are thinking ahead about how to scale, deploy, and design future solar panels to be easily recyclable.

Research published in the International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering introduces a new approach to controlling mineral processing that uses active sensing. This method embeds intelligence within sensor systems, significantly reducing the need for human intervention in the process to improve efficiency and precision in mineral separation processes.

Earth's atmosphere holds an ocean of water, enough liquid to fill Utah's Great Salt Lake 800 times. Extracting some of that moisture is seen as a potential way to provide clean drinking water to billions of people globally who face chronic shortages.

A research team has developed the design of materials that improve the process of obtaining hydrogen from water using microwave radiation. The process allows hydrogen to be obtained from renewable electrical energy, thus avoiding CO2 emissions from hydrogen production.

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing powerful machine learning models—an application of artificial intelligence—to simulate underground hydrogen storage operations under various cushion gas scenarios. This will play a vital role in the low-carbon economy of the future.

As artificial intelligence models become increasingly prevalent and are integrated into diverse sectors like health care, finance, education, transportation, and entertainment, understanding how they work under the hood is critical. Interpreting the mechanisms underlying AI models enables us to audit them for safety and biases, with the potential to deepen our understanding of the science behind intelligence itself.