by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Cherenkov radiation is one of those obscure-seeming things that a lot of people know exist – we’ve seen pictures of the blue glow emitted by nuclear plant fuel stored in pools – but are vague on details. It’s caused by charged particles passing...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By David Hirsch, Dartmouth News Service: A newly discovered planetary system will provide researchers with the rare chance to study a group of growing planets, according to research co-led by Dartmouth. The new system, named TOI 451, is made up of at least three...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Technology is making it very easy to create “deepfake” videos that look real and, as you’d expect if you know anything about human behavior, there are growing cases online of people using it to create pornography that appears to involve real people,...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
“It costs money to throw out the trash, but recycling, with its halo of virtue and the value of the materials in the marketplace, was a blessed reprieve. “That has long been a fiction, as the cost of dumping garbage subsidizes the cost of recycling. But...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the state’s least-known billion-dollar companies, Merchants Fleet, has announced their intent to buy 12,600 electric vans from General Motors even though they don’t exist yet, putting it at the forefront of a huge change sweeping through transportation....
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: Greentech Media (which is disappearing, by the way) has a story about these batteries here: “Plus Power now needs to build the plants: a 150-megawatt/300-megawatt-hour system near a cranberry bog south of Boston, Massachusetts and a...