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A new paper released today in Nature Energy evaluates the co-damages from air pollution and finds that on top of direct health risks, air pollution increases electricity consumption.

A University of Maryland expert in algorithms and high-performance computing has been funded by Google to develop computational techniques to improve contact tracing methods in the wake of COVID-19, research that could ultimately provide fundamental new insights into how epidemics can be controlled.

It is a sweltering weekend in late August and Professor Dennis Pogue is revisiting a small, simple frame building at a private residence in Richmond, Virginia. The structure, which Pogue estimates is from the late 1850s, is in bad shape, but he has made a convincing argument for the owners not only to save it, but to seek out recommendations for how to preserve it.