Ammonia from wastewater: How we’re turning a pollutant into fertilizer and clean fuel

Scientific and engineering breakthroughs are allowing us to make ammonia from pollution rather than fossil fuels.
Gadget Review on MSN

Scientists convert wet coffee grounds into fuel (in just 90 seconds)

KIGAM's Flame Plasma Pyrolysis turns wet coffee grounds into coal-grade biochar in 90 seconds, skipping pre-drying entirely.
24/7 Wall St

The Roth Conversion That Added $999.60 to a Retiree’s Medicare Bill…Two Years Later

A large Roth conversion spikes MAGI in the conversion year, triggering Medicare IRMAA surcharges two years later with no appeal allowed. Mary's 2024 conversion pushed her into a high IRMAA tier, ...
The New York Times

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...
AOL

The Roth Conversion That Added $999.60 to a Retiree’s Medicare Bill…Two Years Later

Mary did everything the retirement books told her to do. At 68, already on Medicare and watching her traditional IRA balloon toward future required minimum distributions (RMDs), she pulled the trigger ...
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The Tax Math That Makes These Dividend Stocks Worth $19,200 More Inside a Roth

ARCC and AGNC generate ordinary-income dividends that cost a couple in the 24% bracket $19,200 annually when held outside a Roth. That $19,200 annual tax drag accumulates to $192,000 over 10 years, ...
The Verge

AI has a water problem — Google thinks it has a fix

The company promises to replenish more water than it uses by 2030. The company promises to replenish more water than it uses by 2030. is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the ...
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
Yahoo

Data centers have a major water problem. Texas oil companies think they have the solution.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The site of a pilot project where Circle Verde Water is testing a new technology that would treat oilfield wastewater on Thursday, ...
Houston Chronicle

Data centers have a major water problem. Texas oil companies think they have the solution.

Thirsty data centers are cropping up all over Texas, as the state contends with a water shortage so severe that entire communities are running dry. But data center developers in parched areas of the ...
Wall Street Journal

A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It.

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...