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5 Million Deaths a Year Linked to Abnormal Temperatures
More than five million extra deaths a year can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures, according to a new study.
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Tackling Climate Change by Storing up the Sun
“This is the key, the linchpin that will set a lot of things in the right direction,” says Asegun Henry, an MIT mechanical engineering professor.
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Developing Cohesive, Domestic Rare Earth Element Technologies
The U.S. has adequate domestic REE resources, but its supply chain is vulnerable due to dependence on foreign entities for separation and purification of these elements. DARPA program aims to fortify supply chain by utilizing bioengineering approaches to facilitate REE separation and purification.
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Exploring Rare Earth Elements Opportunities
The purified form of REE is primarily sourced from foreign nations, so the U.S. supply chain of the rare earth elements presents a problem. Justin Wilson, a Cornell chemistry professor, has received a DOE grant to develop more efficient methods of separating rare earth elements that will make their domestic availability economically viable.
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Mapping How Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Strategies Impact Economies, Floodwaters
Sea levels are expected to rise by almost seven feet in the Bay Area by 2100. New research shows how traditional approaches to combating sea-level rise can create a domino effect of environmental and economic impacts for nearby communities.
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California Is Planning Floating Wind Farms Offshore to Boost Its Power Supply – Here’s How They Work
Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines directly on the seafloor costly if not impossible. A solution has emerged that’s being tested in several locations around the world: making wind turbines that float.
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Smartphone Network Offers Inexpensive Earthquake Early Warning
A new study demonstrates how Earthquake Early Warning using smartphone technology can be both inexpensive and effective for millions of people.
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Closing the Skills Gap in the Cyber Workforce
There are currently more than three million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally, and, as high-profile incidents like the Solar Winds attack demonstrate, it is vital to address that shortage. But it is difficult for organizations to find and recruit the cyber talent they need.
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Delivering Aid to Disaster Scenes with Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Vehicles
DHS S&T, along with other government agencies, is working on the design and creation of the “H2Rescue” emergency vehicle. The H2Rescue is an innovative new truck that can be a lifeline to responders and community members during times of chaos and uncertainty because the H2Rescue is fully powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.
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Machine Learning Helps in Earthquake Risk Prediction
When that solid ground turns to liquid — as sometimes happens during earthquakes — it can topple buildings and bridges. The phenomenon is known as liquefaction, and it was a major feature of the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. New framework applies big data, supercomputing to soil liquefaction.
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Wildfires Threaten California’s Power Grid
Wildfires blazed through California, Arizona, and Oregon, driven by winds and a lack of humidity.. Death Valley in California’s Mohave Desert hit 128 degrees Fahrenheit. Utility officials in Oregon were keeping a weary eye on the Bootleg Fire which is raging out of control in southern Oregon and threatening Path 66 — a vital electric line corridor linking California with the Oregon power grid. The blaze in Oregon threatens the power lines which carry power to California.
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Most Buildings Were Designed for an Earlier Climate – Here’s What Will Happen as Global Warming Accelerates
Architects and engineers design buildings and other structures, like bridges, to operate within the parameters of the local climate. The structures are built using materials and following design standards which can withstand the range of temperatures, rainfall, snow, and wind which are expected, plus any geological issues such as earthquakes, subsidence, and ground water levels. When any of these parameters are exceeded, chances are some aspects of the structure will fail.
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Automatically Finding Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
A typical buffer overflow occurs when a computer program receives a request to process more data than its physical memory is capable of handling all at once and places the excess into a “buffer.” The buffer itself has a finite capacity, so if the buffer can’t handle the excess, it “overflows,” or crashes.
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Detecting Floods from Space Using Artificial Intelligence
Observing the Earth from space provides valuable information for flood-related decision-making on the ground.
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Accurately Predicting Impact of Storms, Sea-Level Rise on Coasts
The combination of extreme storms and rises in sea levels as a result of global climate change are posing serious threats to coastal communities. The Forecasting Coastal Evolution (ForCE) model has the potential to be a game-changing advance in coastal evolution science.
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The long view
The Future of Open Data in the Age of AI: Safeguarding Public Assets Amid Growing Private Sector Demands
AI offers immense potential, but that potential must be realized within a framework that protects the public’s right to its own information. The open data movement must evolve to meet this new challenge—not retreat from it.
Horses for Courses: Where Quantum Computing Is, and Isn’t, the Answer
Despite the impressive and undeniable strides quantum computing has made in recent years, it’s important to remain cautious about sweeping claims regarding its transformative potential.
Federal R&D Funding Boosts Productivity for the Whole Economy − Making Big Cuts to Such Government Spending Unwise
Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation – and the vital productivity gains it supports. If the government were to abandon its long-standing practice of investing in R&D, it would significantly slow the pace of U.S. innovation and economic growth.
Why Ukraine’s AI Drones Aren’t a Breakthrough Yet
Machine vision, a form of AI, allows drones to identify and strike targets autonomously. The drones can’t be jammed, and they don’t need continuous monitoring by operators. Despite early hopes, the technology has not yet become a game-changing feature of Ukraine’s battlefield drones. But its time will come.
New Tech Will Make Our Airplanes Safer
Odysight.ai’s technology allows for constant monitoring of aircraft, sending alerts in case of malfunctions that could lead to accidents.
New Technology is Keeping the Skies Safe
DHS S&T Baggage, Cargo, and People Screening (BCP) Program develops state-of-the-art screening solutions to help secure airspace, communities, and borders