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Read the full story from the Associated Press. Hot weather of the kind sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up electricity demand for data centers, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas. The impact on communities like the racially diverse Sacred Heart neighborhood in Lowell, Massachusetts underscores why the artificial i...

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In celebration of America’s 250th birthday and my daughter coming back to Illinois for a visit, I’m taking a holiday break. I’ll be back with new posts on July 8. If you’re looking for something to read in the meantime, browse the archives by topic.

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Read the full story from the International Society for Optics and Photonics. See also: Ahamed, A., Myat, H., Rawat, A., McPhillips, L. N., & Islam, M. S. (2026). AI-augmented photon-trapping spectrometer-on-a-chip on silicon platform with extended near-infrared sensitivity. Advanced Photonics, 8(01). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.8.1.016008 A new AI-powered chip fro...

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Read the full story at The Nature of Cities. Urbanising cities in the Global South have a multitude of challenges—rapid demographic changes placing pressure on environmental resources, services, and infrastructure unable to keep pace with unplanned urbanisation, and urban sprawl creating a dystopian peri-urban landscape. Often, urbanisation is accompanied by loss of urban green ...

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Read the full story from NPR. Climate researchers at Northern Illinois University found that golf ball-size hail or larger will become much more common in the United States. See also ICECHIP, an NSF-funded project led by Northern Illinois University researchers that brought together more than 100 scientists and students from across the country and beyond …

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