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MIT design for Mars propellant production trucks wins NASA competition

Jul 15, 2022

On June 24, NASA announced that an MIT team received first place in the annual Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition for their in-situ resource utilization (ISRU)...

Pursuing progress at the nanoscale

Jul 15, 2022

Housed inside a big blue dome is the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL). “In the U.S., we don't have a simple, small, day-to-day SANS instrument,” Khaykovich says. Fisher and Hines...

New Vic: McGill University welcomes the Quebec government’s support

Jul 15, 2022

The Gazette officielle du Québec published the ministerial decision authorizing the Dossier d’affaires for the New Vic project on July 13th, 2022. This important milestone is a key step in...

Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

Jul 15, 2022

Astronomers at McGill University, MIT and elsewhere have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy, that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. Within this window,...

Gender Bias in Search Algorithms Has Effect on Users, New Study Finds

Jul 14, 2022

Moreover, these search results have an effect on users by promoting gender bias and potentially influencing hiring decisions. First, they drew from the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI), which contains...

How effective is school-based mindfulness training?

Jul 14, 2022

The main MYRIAD studies from this programme are published in a series of papers in a special issue of Evidence-based Mental Health. Reports suggest that one in five teenagers experience...

Five with MIT ties win 2022 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

Jul 13, 2022

Five current graduate students and recent alumni have been awarded 2022 Hertz Fellowships in applied science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and particle physics. This year’s recipients from MIT are Roderick...

School-based mindfulness training programme fails to improve young people’s mental health

Jul 13, 2022

The MY Resilience In ADolescence (MYRIAD) study programme span spans eight years of research and explore whether schools-based mindfulness training could improve the mental health of young people. The main...

Intensive visiting nurse program doesn't impact birth outcomes, says ongoing study

Jul 13, 2022

In the coming years, researchers will continue to evaluate other outcomes related to child health and development and the spacing of subsequent births. The randomized evaluation measured maternal and newborn...

Ancient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT

Jul 13, 2022

But the smoke was coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: a mud-and-straw furnace for smelting iron. “We had to...