How Ukraine Unplugged from Russia and Joined Europe's Power Grid with Unprecedented Speed

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March 29, 2022

Dear Reader, This month, engineers worked at a breakneck pace to connect Ukraine's power grid to that of Europe, with one source describing the feat as "a year's work in two weeks." The lead story explains how they pulled it off.

Sophie Bushwick, Associate Editor, Technology

Energy How Ukraine Unplugged from Russia and Joined Europe's Power Grid with Unprecedented Speed Engineers achieved "a year's work in two weeks" to safely do so By Anna Blaustein

Computing 'Momentum Computing' Pushes Technology's Thermodynamic Limits Overheating is a major problem for today's computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing By Philip Ball

Computing Russian Misinformation Seeks to Confound, Not Convince Rather than take a side, these campaigns create decision paralysis that leads to inaction By David Robert Grimes

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Biotech This Mushroom Leather Is Being Made into Hermès Handbags A bioreactor-made material is being marketed as an animal-friendly leather alternative that also aims to help save the planet By Emily Waltz,Nature Biotechnology

Defense How Many Nuclear Weapons Exist, and Who Has Them? Nuclear states admit to owning about 13,000 warheads, but the real number could be higher By Joe Phelan,LiveScience

Artificial Intelligence Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.  By Sarah Vitak | 11:50

Defense How Bellingcat Investigators Verified the Brutal Use of Cluster Munitions in Ukraine Researchers at the investigative collective scour the Internet to expose possible war crimes By Janosch Deeg

Natural Disasters Starlink Offers Internet Access in Times of Crisis, but Is It Just a PR Stunt? There are no individual saviors for Tonga's Internet infrastructure By Robin George Andrews

Engineering Russia's New Nuclear Missiles Squeeze Response Time As treaties end, Russia focuses on hypersonic weapons that could "tighten the noose" on current U.S. defenses By Matthew Gault

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