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This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

App, Artificial Intelligence, Climate change and energy, Features and Investigations

Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine siblings. So when he was old enough, his parents tasked him with one of the family’s most vital chores: fetching water. Like most homes in his Palestinian neighborhood in Amman, Jordan, the Yaghis’ had no electricity or running water. At least once […]

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AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

App, Artificial Intelligence, Features and Investigations, Hype Correction

The microwave-size instrument at Lila Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doesn’t look all that different from others that I’ve seen in state-of-the-art materials labs. Inside its vacuum chamber, the machine zaps a palette of different elements to create vaporized particles, which then fly through the chamber and land to create a thin film, using a technique

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