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Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

NEW PRESS RELEASE - Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste🧪💧 Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste. Read more

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Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

UMich researchers are working with UWash, UPenn, LBNL, Google, HPE, Microsoft, and Nvidia on a platform that transfers data between chips with light instead of electricity. They say it could topple the memory wall limiting #AI model growth today. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/boos...

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Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips

AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.

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Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

New press release: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/new-... DM if you are a journalist and want to be connected with our researchers!

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New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals

Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.

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Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

@ SCIENCE WRITERS. Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, a U-M research scientists is will to chat about Parker Solar Probe's closest approach with the sun on December 24th. He will use the data to help solve the long-standing coronal heating problem—why the sun's atmosphere is 200X hotter than its surface.

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