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Grateful that we have been able to find, and fund, the best brains anywhere.
These scholars will solve problems that will change the world.
For someone buying a home battery, the global chart comes down to a small question: if a module fails in three years, who can replace it locally?
Lithium-ion battery deployment has surged rapidly in recent years, driven by the expansion of EVs & stationary storage.
But production has become increasingly geographically concentrated, underscoring the need for more diversified & secure supply chains: buff.ly/rN5PxxS
After a useful conversation with a mentor, I would send a short update when I have acted on it.
“I checked the requirement. Here is what I found. This is the part I still need help with.”
Then the next conversation can move forward instead of starting from the beginning again.
The spare part may be cheap. The idle factory is not. That is the part of “lowest cost” calculations I would want on the same page.
Disruptions to small volumes of critical minerals can have outsized consequences for industries worth trillions of dollars.
Our new commentary looks at the case for treating the costs of diversification as an insurance policy against supply risks 👉 iea.li/3VhyfbH
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Also, if they don’t know much about you, please send them your resume/CV or a draft—something that can help your professor write you a great recommendation.
When we say “local production”, which stage do we mean: digging it out, refining it, or making the part a factory can use? Those are different businesses.
Diversifying rare earths markets is key to ensuring the resilience of global supply chains.
New projects are emerging worldwide, but planned refining & magnet manufacturing capacity outside of China remains well below that for mining 👉 iea.li/3T3Lr2z
When I was applying to graduate schools, I applied to eleven.
That is a fact about my journey, not a number I would prescribe for somebody else.
If you can afford only a few applications, I would spend more time checking fit and funding before paying. Copying my count without my context would be poor advice.
A quiet, uneventful ride is a very convincing technology demo.
Please read the funding deadline separately from the admission deadline.
I would put both in the calendar, with the time zone. Getting an application in before one date does not tell you whether you met the other.
That is a small detail to check while the options are still open.
Here, seawater can work its way beneath grounded ice. Represent that as an area instead of a neat boundary line, and the forecast changes. That is the bit I find interesting.
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier could contribute more to sea level rise by the end of the century than some previous estimates.
@NASAJPL helped develop a model that better accounts for seawater moving beneath the ice, improving simulations of the glacier’s retreat.
ALT Aerial view of Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, showing a vast expanse of white ice ending in a steep ice cliff above dark blue ocean water. Broken ice surrounds the glacier’s edge. Credit: NASA
Ask the AI for a hint first. Leave yourself something to figure out before you ask for the full solution.
My doctoral research at Arkansas involved modelling fluid spills at oil and gas well sites.
That tells you more than “I studied engineering.”
If you are writing a research proposal, try to name the problem you want to investigate. A professor can have a much more useful conversation with you about a question than about an entire field.
I like that the new telescope gives the old one more useful work to do. A wider view can tell you where to look closely.
Did you catch the @NASARoman launch? 🚀
NASA’s newest space telescope is on the way to its home orbit a million miles away, where it’ll capture wide-field, infrared views of the universe!
Roman gets the big picture, while Hubble delivers the details. ⬇️
ALT A deep field view of space is superimposed with an orange outline of Roman's field of view, with six smaller images pulled out to the sides, showing individual galaxies observed by Hubble.
