Science X Newsletter Thu, Mar 28

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Here is your customized Science X Newsletter for March 28, 2024:

Technology news

	Factory and warehouse rooftops offer untapped opportunity to help disadvantaged communities bridge solar energy divide Lower-income communities across the United States have long been much slower to adopt solar power than their affluent neighbors, even when local and federal agencies offer tax breaks and other financial incentives.
	Team shows ion-induced field screening is a dominant factor in the operational stability of perovskite solar cells Researchers from the University of Potsdam, together with colleagues from other universities, have shown that ion-induced field screening is a dominant factor in the operational stability of perovskite solar cells. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Energy, lay the foundation for new strategies to improve the lifetime of the next-generation solar cells.
	Researchers develop biomimetic olfactory chips to enable advanced gas sensing and odor detection A research team led by the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas sensors.
	Generative AI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria With nearly 5 million deaths linked to antibiotic resistance globally every year, new ways to combat resistant bacterial strains are urgently needed.
	China's latest EV is a 'connected' car from smart phone and electronics maker Xiaomi Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country's booming but crowded market for electric cars with a sporty high-tech sedan.
	German court rules against Mercedes in emissions case A German court ruled Thursday that auto giant Mercedes-Benz knowingly installed emissions-cheating devices in some diesel vehicles, opening the door for owners to seek compensation.
	How to make chips produced in the cutting process useful Compared with other cutting methods, EV-chiseling could generate metallic microstructures with ultra-high aspect ratio, and the cutting chip could be directly transformed into unique microstructures.
	Artificial intelligence boosts super-resolution microscopy Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion. But its usefulness beyond that is being shown in more and more different scientific fields.
	Baltimore Key Bridge: How a domino effect brought it down in seconds The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world's third largest continuous truss bridge fall into the Patapsco river.
	Amazon bets $150 billion on data centers required for AI boom Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving the cloud-computing giant the firepower to handle an expected explosion in demand for artificial intelligence applications and other digital services.
	'Operation Beethoven': Dutch 2.5bn-euro charm offensive to keep ASML The Dutch government on Thursday unveiled a plan worth 2.5 billion euros to retain global firms like chip giant ASML amid fears of a far-right clampdown on immigration.
	China's competitive car market at heart of global EV revolution China is the biggest electric vehicle market in the world, a battle royale featuring both established carmakers as well as upstarts such as Xiaomi, which launched its first EV on Thursday.
	New report highlights global strategies for accelerating AI in science and research A comprehensive analysis of the integration of artificial intelligence in science and research across various countries addresses both the advancements made and the challenges faced in this field.
	Smart utility meters drive down manufacturing costs—if managers use them A new study of the extent to which "smart utility meters" can improve energy efficiency in manufacturing finds that the willingness of managers actually to make use of the technology is a key driver in reducing energy consumption and related costs.
	Building energy efficiency: Enhancing HVAC fault detection with transformer and transfer learning Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, a critical component of building energy consumption, are prone to faults that can reduce their efficiency. Traditional data-driven fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) models often suffer from limited generalizability, making their application across diverse systems challenging.
	Direct lithium extraction from spent batteries for efficient lithium recycling Recently, the research findings of Professor Xie's group (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) were published in Science Bulletin. This study proposed a simple, efficient, and low-energy chemical leaching strategy, utilizing a lithium extraction solution composed of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon reagents and ether solvents to directly extract active lithium from retired batteries.
	Q&A: How to train AI when you don't have enough data Artificial intelligence excels at sorting through information and detecting patterns or trends. But these machine learning algorithms need to be trained with large amounts of data first.
	Crypto fraudster Bankman-Fried faces sentencing Disgraced cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be sentenced Thursday following his conviction in one of the biggest financial fraud cases in history.
	Video game giant Embracer sells 'Borderlands' maker to Take-Two Swedish video game group Embracer said Thursday it was selling Gearbox Entertainment, the developer of the popular first-person shooter franchise "Borderlands", to US company Take-Two for $460 million.
	White House sets policies for federal AI use "Concrete safeguards" for government use of artificial intelligence were announced by the White House Thursday, as it vowed they would serve as a model for "global action."
	Power up: PG&E says electricity plan can boost Silicon Valley innovation and economy PG&E is pushing forward with quests to help bolster Silicon Valley's economy and innovation future, including major South Bay and East Bay electricity projects, utility officials have said.
	Oversized trucks create negative externalities requiring government intervention in Australia The Australian federal government has bowed to pressure from the car industry, announcing it will relax proposed emissions rules for utes and vans and delay enforcement of the new standards by six months.
	Responsible AI: Three tools to help businesses Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most powerful tools developed in recent decades. And, as the saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility.
	Fallen crypto tycoon Bankman-Fried gets 25-year sentence Disgraced cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in jail on Thursday—a stunning descent for a figure who seemed poised to lead an emerging sector less than two years ago.
	A timeline of the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried and the colossal failure of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried went from cryptocurrency golden boy to the face of the industry's collapse. The founder and former CEO of the massive cryptocurrency exchange FTX was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday after being convicted of fraud for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors. The collapse of one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world shook the digital currency world and sent prices plunging.
	The Bankman-Fried verdict, explained Sam Bankman-Fried co-founded the FTX crypto exchange in 2019 and quickly built it into the world's second most popular place to trade digital currency. It collapsed almost as quickly. By the fall of 2022, it was bankrupt.
	Australian report maps sovereign capability to build 'foundational' AI tech Foundation models, the technology underpinning the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), could boost Australia's productivity, bolster our economy, and transform industries according to a new report by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.
	Stop out-of-control AI and focus on people, new book urges In a new book co-edited by UdeM's Catherine Régis and Jean-Louis Denis, experts from a dozen countries and a dozen disciplines argue for a more human-centered approach to artificial intelligence.

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