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Новости за 03.12.2024

New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding

Energy-daily.com 

Boston MA (SPX) Nov 26, 2024
Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people's homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate. MIT scientists have developed a method that generates satellite imagery from the future to depict how a region would look after a potential flooding event. The method combines a generative artificial intelligence model with a physics-based flood model

Breakthrough in heat-to-electricity conversion demonstrated in tungsten disilicide

Energy-daily.com 

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
Thermoelectric materials play a key role in energy efficiency, converting waste heat into electricity. These materials are particularly valuable in industrial and automotive settings, where engines generate significant waste heat, and they hold promise for portable power solutions in remote sensors and space applications. Conventional thermoelectric devices rely on parallel thermoelectric

An electronic system eases airport traffic

Energy-daily.com 

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2024


Imagine if all commuters used the same few roads at the same time every day. The congestion would be overwhelming. This scenario mirrors what's happening in the nation's airspace, where multiple airlines attempt to use the most direct flight paths to the same airports, causing severe air traffic congestion due to limited runway availability. Jeremy Coupe of NASA's Ames Research Center in

All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering achieved with multi-petawatt laser producing ultra-bright gamma rays

Energy-daily.com 

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2024
In a major advancement for strong field physics, researchers from the Institute for Basic Science's Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) in Korea have successfully demonstrated nonlinear Compton scattering (NCS) using a groundbreaking all-optical setup. This achievement, recently published in 'Nature Photonics', uses the 4-petawatt laser at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (

A pathway to advanced quantum devices with zinc oxide quantum dots

Energy-daily.com 

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
Researchers at Tohoku University have achieved a major advancement in quantum technology by creating electrically defined quantum dots within zinc oxide (ZnO) heterostructures. Their findings, published in Nature Communications on November 7, 2024, highlight zinc oxide's untapped potential for quantum computing applications. Quantum dots are nanometer-scale semiconductor structures capable

Norway suspends deep-sea mining projects: govt allies

Energy-daily.com 

Oslo (AFP) Dec 1, 2024
Norway has suspended plans to start giving licences for deep-sea mining next year that had faced opposition from environment groups and international institutions, a party allied with the centre-left government said on Sunday. Norway, Western Europe's biggest oil and gas producer, had planned to become one of the world's first countries to start handing out rights to tens of thousands of squ

Plastic pollution talks fail to reach landmark deal; Greenpeace activists detained over plastic tanker protest

Energy-daily.com 

Busan, South Korea (AFP) Dec 1, 2024
Deeply divided negotiators failed on Sunday to reach a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution, missing a self-imposed deadline, and agreed to extend their talks. For a week, delegates from nearly 200 nations meeting in South Korea have wrestled with how to stop millions of tonnes of plastic waste entering the environment each year. Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that microp

'You're all going to die today': Nargis Fakhri's sister indicted for murder of ex-boyfriend & his friend

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Actress Nargis Fakhri's sister, Aliya, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and arson for allegedly setting a deadly fire in a garage in Queens, New York, on November 2. The fire killed her ex-boyfriend, Edward Jacobs (35), and his friend, Anastasia Ettienne (33). Aliya reportedly shouted "You're all going to die today" before starting the fire, trapping the victims inside. Both died from smoke inhalation and thermal injuries.

A Decade Of Kiwi Journalism Preserved From Newshub.co.nz

Scoop 

Years of original New Zealand journalism from the Newshub website including news video, articles and photography, have been migrated to the country’s largest news website stuff.co.nz, through an arrangement agreed with Warner Bros. Discovery.

How Montreal Became Antisemitism Capital of North America

Real Clear Politics 

There is an old saying that when the United States sneezes, Canada catches a cold. Recent events in Canada, however, suggest that the US should immunize itself from a dangerously virulent virus thaa€¦

Pete Hegseth's Secret History

Real Clear Politics 

A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump's nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.

Nvidia among investors in $700 million capital raise by AI firm Nebius Group

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Nebius was founded by Arkady Volozh, former founder and CEO of Yandex. Volozh said the $700 million financing would give Nebius additional firepower to build clusters of graphics processing units (GPUs), cloud platforms and other tools for AI developers faster and on a larger scale.