A friend and former colleague of mine did some interesting optimization work with materials and heat transport in nuclear reactors in the past few years:
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newscnl-to-develop-finned-candu-fuel-8896071
Otherwise, I’ve been reading on connections between statistical mechanics and various topics related to data science (nothing to share at the moment for various reasons, though, but a quick internet search will allow you to see a number of articles).
On that note, mainly publishers, including Frontiers in Science have a fair bit of open access articles.
Otherwise, here’s the monthly link dump:
Broadly related to work I’d done:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26618-9
Quantitative:
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-customizable-timber-grown-lab.html
(The customization didn’t work as I planned so there’s a lot more here than I’d want)
General curiosity:
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