NSE PhD student Marco Graffiedi is helping to develop the next generation of spaceships and nuclear plants. He’s researching quenching, a powerful heat-transfer mechanism that may facilitate refueling in space as well as the cooling of nuclear cores.
New research reveals what happens in the brain during attention lapses caused by sleep deprivation: A wave of cerebrospinal fluid flows out of the brain. This process typically occurs during sleep and helps to wash away waste products that have built up during the day.
Copper, a startup founded by Sam Calisch SM ’14, PhD ’19, has developed a battery-equipped kitchen range that can plug into a standard wall outlet. The induction range features a lithium iron phosphate battery that charges when energy is cheapest.
Focusing on the risk of nuclear escalation, Caitlin Talmadge studies militaries’ on-the-ground capabilities and how they are influenced by political circumstances. “It’s important for me to do scholarship that speaks to real-world problems,” she says.
A deep-learning model from Alex Shalek and colleagues “was up to 17 times more effective at finding relevant compounds than standard, brute-force drug screening that depends on randomly selecting compounds from a chemical library,” Nature reported.
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