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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. Renewable energy future. Where are we heading? Energy use is projected to climb to 629 quad BTUs by 2020, and 813 quad BTUs by 2040. —Chu et al.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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The following day (which happened to coincide with the short-lived Wagner Group rebellion ), we rewrote our algorithms so that our system mapped only the locations where suspected land mines were identified—a more scalable solution for our future work. Maybe we’ll eventually have separate models for places such as Angola, Iraq, and Laos.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. The population maps were developed by the WorldPop team, led by Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton.

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