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Startups Are Inventing Cooling Clothes for a Hotter Future
Bloomberg | September 1, 2023

From fabric that reflects sunlight to apparel that comes with its own thermostat, companies are creating outfit options to help people cope amid more ...

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Burying Power Lines Prevents Wildfires. But There?s a Cost
WIRED | September 1, 2023

Investigators are eying the Lahaina wildfire as yet another deadly blaze started by electrical equipment. Putting lines underground would help?at a st...

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Behind the scenes of the TallWood shake table test at UC San Diego
ASCE/Civil Engineering Source | August 28, 2023

It is often said: ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall.? But the largest full-scale building ever tested on the University of California San Die...

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Why Today?s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong
IEEE Spectrum | August 26, 2023

Q&A with Jacobs School alumna Janelle Shane, who runs the blog AI Weirdness and has written a book on the topic of AI....

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How one device could help transform our power grid
Science News | August 24, 2023

From Colorado to Washington, from Ohio to Pennsylvania, coal-fired power plants are shutting down. The United States is on track to retire half of its...

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Robotic Hand Uses Sense of Touch to Rotate Objects
Design News | August 16, 2023

One of the key goals for robotics developers is to create machines with similar sensory perception as humans, particularly for the sense of touch. Thi...

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