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MAEO: Multiobjective Animorphic Ensemble Optimization for Scalable Large-scale Engineering Applications

- Multiobjective optimization remains challenging for many scientific and engineering problems due to the need to balance convergence, diversity, and computational efficiency across high-dimensional...

Forecasting Solar Energy Using a Single Image

- Solar panels are increasingly deployed in cities on rooftops, walls, and urban infrastructure. Although the panel costs have fallen in recent years, the soft costs of installing them have not. These...

Selective Adsorption of Mixed Dyes Using Freshwater Macroalgae (Cladophora sp.) Biomass: Spectroscopic Analysis

Song flight and 3D thermal detection provide evidence for bat attraction to wind turbines in Central Europe

A Novel Quantum Augmented Framework to Improve Microgrid Cybersecurity

- Small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) are redefining the energy generation landscape by enabling the deployment of modular, scalable, and pre-built power units that can be used to build distributed...

Overexpression of PtaHDG11 enhances drought tolerance and suppresses trichome formation in Populus tremula × Populus alba

20/04/2026 - Extended drought periods are increasingly impacting the growth and survival of forest trees in Central Europe, underscoring the need for innovative approaches to adapt trees to drought. Understanding...

Scientists develop dirt-powered fuel cell that could replace batteries

19/04/2026 - Scientists have developed a fuel cell that uses microbes in soil to produce electricity. The device can power underground sensors for tasks like monitoring moisture or detecting touch, without...

A multi-platform LiDAR dataset for standardized forest inventory measurement at long term ecological monitoring sites

- We present a curated multi-platform LiDAR reference dataset from an instrumented ICOS forest plot, explicitly designed to support calibration, benchmarking, and integration of 3D structural data with...

Beyond Uniform Sampling: Synergistic Active Learning and Input Denoising for Robust Neural Operators

- Neural operators have emerged as fast surrogate models for physics simulations, yet they remain acutely vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, a critical liability for safety-critical digital twin...

A key solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good

13/04/2026 - Removing CO2 from the atmosphere by capturing the carbon from burning biomass is supposed to save the planet, but it looks like the flagship project will never happen

Boxes2Pixels: Learning Defect Segmentation from Noisy SAM Masks

- Accurate defect segmentation is critical for industrial inspection, yet dense pixel-level annotations are rarely available. A common workaround is to convert inexpensive bounding boxes into...

Towards Automated Solar Panel Integrity: Hybrid Deep Feature Extraction for Advanced Surface Defect Identification

- To ensure energy efficiency and reliable operations, it is essential to monitor solar panels in generation plants to detect defects. It is quite labor-intensive, time consuming and costly to manually...

OccuBench: Evaluating AI Agents on Real-World Professional Tasks via Language World Models

- AI agents are expected to perform professional work across hundreds of occupational domains (from emergency department triage to nuclear reactor safety monitoring to customs import processing), yet...

Chernobyl at 40: The man with the most dangerous job on Earth

13/04/2026 - Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside. That job currently falls to Anatoly Doroshenko, who explains the dangers...

The green solution to climate change isn't happening – and that's good

13/04/2026 - Removing CO2 from the atmosphere by capturing the carbon from burning biomass is supposed to save the planet, but it looks like the flagship project will never happen

Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

13/04/2026 - Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive...

Adversarial Sensor Errors for Safe and Robust Wind Turbine Fleet Control

- Plant-level control is an emerging wind energy technology that presents opportunities and challenges. By controlling turbines in a coordinated manner via a central controller, it is possible to...

From Cut-In to Rated: Multi-Region Floating Offshore Wind Farm Control for Secondary Frequency Regulation

- This paper describes a multi-region control framework for floating offshore wind farms. Specifically, we propose a novel generator torque controller that regulates rotor speed in Region 2,...

Canopy Tree Height Estimation Using Quantile Regression: Modeling and Evaluating Uncertainty in Remote Sensing

- Accurate tree height estimation is vital for ecological monitoring and biomass assessment. We apply quantile regression to existing tree height estimation models based on satellite data to...

mNARX+: A surrogate model for complex dynamical systems using manifold-NARX and automatic feature selection

- We propose an automatic approach for manifold nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous inputs (mNARX) modeling that leverages the feature-based structure of functional-NARX (F-NARX) modeling. This...

Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?

01/04/2026 - Plug-in solar panels are a cheaper, simpler alternative to professionally installed panels. But can they really reduce energy bills and are they safe? Matthew Sparkes investigates