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Novel Approaches for Forecasting Electricity Demand

IEEE Spectrum: Among the many industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic were electric utilities. Demand for electricity dropped last year in nearly all countries, according to the International Energy Association. The closing of office buildings, schools, factories, and other facilities made…

Chemistry union reveals its latest top 10 emerging technologies

Chemistry World: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has announced its annual list of the top ten emerging technologies in chemistry. Several tackle environmental and sustainability challenges, while others address the ongoing pandemic, focusing on new solutions to…

Looking for Insights from Artificial Intelligence

Communications of the ACM: ‘AI disentangles protein folding’ was one of the headlines in the selection of breakthroughs achieved during the year 2020 by the magazine Science last December. An artificial intelligence (AI) program called AlphaFold, developed by Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind, had succeeded…

To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter

The Conversation: In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio: Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment for more than…