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Offering clean energy around the clock

Oct 19, 2024

Now, 247Solar is building high-temperature concentrated solar power systems that use overnight thermal energy storage to provide round-the-clock power and industrial-grade heat. Some of the hot air is also routed...

To understand cognition — and its dysfunction — neuroscientists must learn its rhythms

Oct 19, 2024

In this way, electric fields both reflect neural activity and also influence it. Different phases and frequencies of brain rhythms provide this coordination, aligned to amplify each other, or offset...

Nuno Loureiro named director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Oct 19, 2024

Nuno Loureiro, professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics, has been appointed the new director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, effective May 1. A theoretical...

Polar clouds create wrinkle in the climate models

Oct 19, 2024

Photo: Yngve VogtOne of the major challenges with current climate models is that they do not sufficiently take into account how the clouds change when the climate gets warmer. We...

Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships

Oct 19, 2024

MIT faculty members Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright are among 188 scientists, artists, and scholars awarded 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Since its founding...

Remembering Chasity Nunez, a shining star at MIT Health

Oct 19, 2024

On March 5, the MIT community lost one of its shining stars when Chasity Nunez passed away. “Chas,” as her friends and colleagues called her, served as the patient safety...

Nanotech opens door to future of insulin medication

Oct 19, 2024

An international team, led by researchers from Australia, have developed a system using nanotechnology that could allow people with diabetes to take oral insulin in the future. The researchers say...

Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead

Oct 19, 2024

Credit: Netflix Professor Graeme Barker from the University of Cambridge, who leads the current Shanidar cave excavations. However, remains from Shanidar Cave still show signs of an empathetic species. Illustration...

Soaring US munitions demand strains support for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan

Oct 19, 2024

That’s because the U.S. military lacks the capacity to provide some of the weapons Israel requested, according to Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In addition...

UBC research helps migrating salmon survive mortality hot-spot

Oct 19, 2024

release young coho smolts into the ocean, they’re never quite certain how many will return as adults. Mossom releases between 5,000 and 10,000 coho smolts each year, and is one...