Scientists Are Turning Giants Slabs of Concrete Into Freaking Batteries

Concrete has a long history of innovation, dating back to 6500 B.C.E. Although most of this material breakthroughs through millennia have been related to durability—the Romans were particularly gifted ...
WPLG

Pool deck design flaws likely triggered Surfside condo collapse, federal investigators say

SURFSIDE, Fla. — Federal scientists investigating the 2021 collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside that killed 98 people say they are zeroing in on what initiated the tragedy. “Our recent work ...
7News Miami

NIST: Surfside tower collapse likely began in pool deck, signs of distress seen weeks before tragedy

SURFSIDE, FLA. (WSVN) - Federal investigators say the 2021 partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside likely began in the building’s pool deck, not the tower itself, and that warning signs ...
NBC 6 South Florida

Federal investigation homes in on pool deck, early warning signs in Surfside collapse

After more than four years and nearly $40 million, the federal investigation into the disaster at Champlain Towers South in Surfside is homing on what has been the prime suspect as the initiation ...
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Surfside condo investigators believe deadly collapse started in the pool deck

More than four years after the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex in Surfside, Florida, that killed 98 people, federal investigators announced their preliminary findings ...
IEEE

Multi-Agent Collaboration for Vehicular Task Offloading Using Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) distributes resources such as computing, storage, and bandwidth to the side close to users, which can provide low-latency services to in-vehicle users, thus ...
IEEE

Multi-Objective Charging Optimization of Lithium-Ion Batteries Considering Electrical, Thermal, and Aging Behaviors Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: Lithium-ion battery charging involves many factors such as electricity, heat, aging, etc. Shortening the charging time of lithium-ion batteries while limiting aging and temperature rise is ...
C&EN

Optimized De Novo Molecular Generation (OMG) for Mass Spectra Annotation Using Transfer and Reinforcement Learning

Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to ...
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xAI launches Grok-4-Fast: Unified Reasoning and Non-Reasoning Model with 2M-Token Context and Trained End-to-End with Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning (RL)

xAI introduced Grok-4-Fast, a cost-optimized successor to Grok-4 that merges “reasoning” and “non-reasoning” behaviors into a single set of weights controllable via system prompts. The model targets ...