Many EVs (Teslas) already contain a heat pump to warm the battery. I presume that improved battery chemistry would supplement this -- but maybe replacement would be possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGgrkeds5U

Not only Teslas: my Renault has this as standard, and many brands have it at least as an option.

Yes, maybe true. But it's a pity that was not reflected in their final grade.

In my experience most/all academics crave a certain type of attention. It is an occupation where you get promoted in part by how famous you are (how many citations your publications have, which conferences you attended, etc.).

Yes! From the article: "The team found that about 13 to 40 pounds of oxygen is generated each second by Europa’s surface. ... While earlier studies reported widely varying ranges up to 2,245 pounds per second, this result shows the higher end of that range was unlikely."

Not an expert, but one application of neural decoding you may be aware of is brain machine interfaces (eg Neuralink). By decoding motor intent we can create devices which offer movement to paraplegic individuals with external robotics. Decoding neuronal activity in other parts of the brain could allow us to directly interface with other neural functions. Imagine a machine that could interpret your perception of space or time (or even modify it).

Another application is in computing. Advances in the understanding of neuroscience have stimulated the creation of artificial neural networks (for example, the convolutional neural network was inspired by the cat visual cortex). Understanding how the human brain encodes concepts such as time or space might help us to design artificial systems.

Finally, the most important aspect of this work is (imo) advancing basic science. We don't understand how the brain works, and work such as this brings us closer to solving the grand mystery of neuroscience.

How about the issue of astroturfing or botting?

The vehicles affected were not drive by wire. It sounds like you are referring to a system in the Cybertrunk, but this article is discussing Model 3 and Model Y which do not have a physical steering column.

He means "maybe there was more to the simplicity of the steering column" i.e maybe Tesla shouldn't have been so hasty to remove.

Does this violate HN submission guidelines?

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Is this a joke? It is pretty much exactly the old "please drink verification can" greentext / meme

I suppose life really does imitate art!