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Fisker has announced its future plans alongside preliminary 2023 and Q4 earnings, and it's not looking great for the EV manufacturer. The company plans to lay off 15 percent of its workforce — nearly 200 people — as it shifts from a direct-to-consumer to a Dealer Partner model. The company is halting all investments in upcoming models and will resume only if in partnership with another automaker.The company's fourth-quarter revenue increased to $200.1 million from $128.3 million in Q3. However, its gross margin was…

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a novel method to grow replacement tissue, such as cartilage, in the lab using a unique high-resolution 3D printing process that creates porous spheres for cell colonization. This technique allows for the assembly of these spheres into any shape, with cells combining to form a uniform, living tissue, overcoming previous challenges in controlling tissue shape and integration.TU Wien has pioneered a novel method for generating artificial tissue: Cells are grown in microstructures…

Credit: The Conversation More of us have been in paid work this past year than ever before. A big part of that is because more of us have been able to work from home than ever before. The proportion of Australians in paid work climbed above 64% in May last year, and has stayed there since. At the same time, unemployment has hovered around a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Professor David Chiaramonti is looking down at the ground to help resolve a problem up in the sky: airplanes' emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants.…

IIT and BeDimensional’s researchers used nanoparticles of ruthenium, a noble metal that is similar to platinum in its chemical behavior but far cheaper, to serve as the active phase of the electrolyser’s cathode, leading to an increased efficiency of the overall electrolyzer. Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaA collaborative research effort between IIT and its spin-off BeDimensional has discovered a method utilizing ruthenium particles in conjunction with a solar-powered electrolysis system.What does it take to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The laws of thermodynamics dictate that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, but new research has found that atmospheric moisture has not increased as expected over arid and semi-arid regions of the world as the climate has warmed. The findings are particularly puzzling because climate models have been…

Harvested rice area in Africa. The top panel shows the rice area growth for 2000–2018. The black dashed line denotes 2008, the start year of the first phase of the CARD program. Rice area growth rates in SSA are given, including the 23 CARD member countries as shaded in the inset map. The bottom panel shows rice area growth between 2008 and 2018 for each of the 23 CARD countries and for the rest of Africa (other). Data from FAOSTAT32. Credit: Nature…

Abandoning fossil fuels and adopting lower-­carbon technologies are our best options for warding off the accelerating threat of climate change. And access to rare earth elements, key ingredients in many of these technologies, will partly determine which countries will meet their goals for lowering emissions. Some nations, including the US, are increasingly worried about whether the supply of those elements will remain stable. As a result, scientists and companies alike are intent on increasing access and improving…

Tesla is reportedly having issues producing 4680 battery cells for the Cybertruck, but the report is a bit a sketchy. Today, Reuters released a report claiming that Tesla is having major issues with its 4680 battery cell production, and it is a “one of the main bottlenecks” in making the Cybertruck: Tesla’s Giga Texas factory is currently churning out 4680 battery cells at rate only sufficient to power about 24,000 Cybertrucks a year, or about a 10th of the required output, according to Reuters…

Researchers have discovered the limits to ChatGPT's ability to provide location-specific information about environmental justice issues, which they said possibly hint at the chatbot's geographic biases. The researchers at Virginia Tech University in the US asked ChatGPT to answer a prompt about the environmental justice issues in each of the 3,108 counties across the states of the country. ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, developed by OpenAI, that is trained extensively on massive amounts of…