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In the US, in March, more electricity came from renewables than gas.The first time renewables have passed gas.
Metal–organic framework: Coordination networks and molecular sponges for gas storage 🧽Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) consist of metal ions or clusters coordinated to organic ligands to form one-, two-, ...
Latent Space: ML for Material Science, active learning for chemical discovery 🔬Heather Kulik discusses how machine learning and AI are accelerating the discovery of new materials, specifically usi...
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal Organic Frameworks, a lego block for precision chemicalsSusumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize for the development of metal-organic fra...
Mirage: The Illusion of Visual Understanding"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark wit...
China battery trio gain $70bn as Iran war sparks ‘paradigm shift’Not the way we hoped the climate transition would happen.
Suddenly, the US manufactures a ton of grid batteries | Canary MediaUp from roughly zero capacity in 2024, US now on track to has capacity for 96 GWh of grid spec battery cells by end o...
Swamp ClubAI automations framework
optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter - GEPA"The key insight is that a surprisingly wide range of problems can be formulated as optimizing a text artifact".
FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale - Engineering at Meta"Meta executes ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries tens of billions of times a day" -- ffmpeg is one of the CLIs I've found t...
AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.“Most organizations have never had a model for developing software engineers. They had an environment that happened t...
Integrated Capture and Conversion of Dilute CO2 Using an Oxygen Tolerant Porous Carbon Modified Gas Diffusion Electrode | ACS Energy LettersLab-scale demonstration of 3rd wave direct air carbon caption addresses key challenges with DAC: it doesn't waste ene...
prime-radiant-inc/clearance: A Markdown viewer for macOSA file browser for .md files from Jesse.
Knuth on Claude"I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6"
On the Return of the Floreana Giant Tortoise | Galápagos Conservancy“For the first time in 180 years, Floreana lineage giant tortoises set foot on Floreana Island once again.”

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