Looking ahead

Here’s what we have planned for the May issue.

Set Sail with AI

From turbocharged digital twins to noise-reducing propellers to optimizing fuel use, AI is already thrusting maritime industry forward. But computing costs and data scarcity can be a drag.

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Reworking Recycling

We produce mountains upon mountains of plastic to make our lives better, or more convenient, in almost every aspect of human living—and then we throw it out. But we have the technology to recycle a lot more than we do.

Also: Mapping hidden geothermal goldmines, a multiscale framework for predicting diffusion in complex alloys, and how a device 100 times smaller than a human hair could help unlock larger quantum computers.