Yes, in my back yard: people who live near large-scale solar projects are happy to have more built nearby
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Jun-2025 22:10 ET (21-Jun-2025 02:10 GMT/UTC)
Building renewable energy plants to meet our energy needs is critical to transitioning away from fossil fuels and tackling global warming — but how do people who live near these plants feel about them? Reports of community opposition have been used against renewable energy. Scientists surveyed communities across the US living within three miles — about an hour’s walk — of solar energy and found that 82% of local residents would support or are neutral towards more solar energy plants in their local area.
A QUT report published today into Australia’s bioeconomy has called for a national strategy and outlined the five key steps needed to grow a sustainable economic future.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have proposed a new approach for teaching everyday users how to create these prompts and improving their interactions with generative artificial intelligence models.
The method, called Requirement-Oriented Prompt Engineering (ROPE), shifts the focus of prompt writing from clever tricks and templates to clearly stating what the AI should do. As large language models (LLMs) improve, the importance of coding skills may wane while expertise in prompt engineering could rise.
Research builds on Emory’s research on influenza vaccines self-administered via Micron’s microarray technology. This trial represents first-ever CDC-sponsored clinical trial of vaccine delivered via “patch” technology and utilizes Micron’s first-in-class dissolvable microarray technology.
MIT researchers built an ultrasmall, low-power receiver that is designed to block a certain type of interference. The chip could be utilized in 5G-enabled smart devices that would be smaller, have longer battery lives, and be more reliable in crowded radio environments.