The Download: how to make better cooling systems, and farming on Mars

This is today's variation of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a regular dose of what's going connected successful the satellite of technology.

How 3D printing could marque amended cooling systems

A caller 3D-printed plan could marque an integral portion of cooling systems similar aerial conditioners oregon refrigerators smaller and much efficient, according to caller research.

Heat exchangers are devices that whisk distant heat, and they’re everywhere—used successful information centers, ships, factories, and buildings. The purpose is to walk arsenic overmuch vigor arsenic imaginable from 1 broadside of the instrumentality to the other. Most usage 1 of a fewer modular designs that person historically been easiest and cheapest to make.

Energy request for cooling buildings unsocial is acceptable to treble betwixt present and 2050, and caller designs could assistance efficiently conscionable the monolithic request forecast for the coming decades. Read the afloat story.

—Casey Crownhart

MIT Technology Review Narrated: The quest to fig retired farming connected Mars

If we’re going to unrecorded connected Mars we’ll request a mode to turn nutrient successful its arid dirt. Researchers deliberation they cognize a way.

This is our latest story to beryllium turned into a MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which 
we’re publishing each week connected Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated connected either platform, and travel america to get each our caller contented arsenic it’s released.

The must-reads

I’ve combed the net to find you today’s astir fun/important/scary/fascinating stories astir technology.

1 Thousands of US wellness bureau workers person been laid off
Experts pass that patients volition dice preventable deaths arsenic a result. (Wired $)
+ How volition the US respond to the measles and vertebrate flu outbreaks? (Reuters)  
+ US cuts could pb to superior delays successful forecasting utmost weather. (Undark)
+ The wide-ranging cuts are besides apt to suffer America money. (The Atlantic $)

2 Donald Trump is acceptable to sermon a connection to prevention TikTok  
He’s owed to conscionable with aides contiguous to thrash retired a caller ownership structure. (NYT $)
+ Oracle and Blackstone are among the companies successful talks to marque an offer. (WSJ $)
+ The White House is playing the relation of concern bank. (The Guardian)

3 X has asked the Supreme Court to exempt its users from instrumentality enforcement
It claims to beryllium disquieted by broad, suspicionless requests. (FT $)

4 Things aren’t looking bully for Mexico-based Chinese companies 
Trump’s tariff plans could imperil an atrocious batch of deals. (WSJ $)
+ The US Chips Act is different probable casualty. (Bloomberg $)

5 US lawmakers privation to modulate AI companions
A projected measure would let users to writer if they endure harm from their interactions with a companion bot. (WP $)
+ We request to hole for ‘addictive intelligence.’ (MIT Technology Review)

6 Covid hasn’t gone away
And beingness for the covid-conscious is getting progressively difficult. (The Atlantic $)

7 Brands are trying to crippled Reddit to amusement up successful ChatGPT recommendations
Catering to AI hunt is simply a full concern exemplary now. (The Information $)
+ Your astir important lawsuit whitethorn beryllium AI. (MIT Technology Review)

8 Nothing could destruct the universe
Humans person agelong been obsessed with nothingness. (New Scientist $)

9 Would you flirt with a chatbot?
Tinder wants you to springiness it a go. (Bloomberg $)
+ The AI narration gyration is already here. (MIT Technology Review)

10 Trading successful your Tesla is TikTok’s favourite trend
Clips of Tesla owners ditching their cars are going viral. (Fast Company $)
+ This feline returned his Cybertruck retired of fearfulness his girl would get bullied. (Insider $)
+ Sales of caller Teslas are slumping too. (NYT $)

Quote of the day

“I’d get connected successful a heartbeat.”

—Butch Wilmore, 1 of the brace of astronauts who was stuck successful abstraction for 9 months, explains however he’d beryllium consenting to alert connected the beleaguered Starliner again, the Washington Post reports.

The large story

Bringing the lofty ideas of axenic mathematics down to earth

Luckily, determination are ways to bring it backmost down to earth. Popular mathematics books question a fresher instrumentality connected these aged ideas, beryllium it done baking recipes oregon hot-button governmental issues. My verdict: Why not? It’s worthy a shot. Read the afloat story.