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1 month ago | 
phys.org | Jennifer Chu |Stephanie Baum |Robert Egan
Magnets and superconductors go together like oil and water—or so scientists have thought. But a new finding by MIT physicists is challenging this century-old assumption.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
news.mit.edu | Jennifer Chu
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act. The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy that is 270 million light-years away. In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black hole’s corona — a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma — suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
techxplore.com | Jennifer Chu
Used in everything from soda cans and foil wrap to circuit boards and rocket boosters, aluminum is the second-most-produced metal in the world after steel. By the end of this decade, demand is projected to drive up aluminum production by 40% worldwide. This steep rise will magnify aluminum's environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
news.mit.edu | Jennifer Chu
Used in everything from soda cans and foil wrap to circuit boards and rocket boosters, aluminum is the second-most-produced metal in the world after steel. By the end of this decade, demand is projected to drive up aluminum production by 40 percent worldwide. This steep rise will magnify aluminum’s environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
news.mit.edu | Jennifer Chu
One of the hardest-working organisms in the ocean is the tiny, emerald-tinged Prochlorococcus marinus. These single-celled “picoplankton,” which are smaller than a human red blood cell, can be found in staggering numbers throughout the ocean’s surface waters, making Prochlorococcus the most abundant photosynthesizing organism on the planet.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
news.mit.edu | Jennifer Chu
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build up rather than out. Instead of squeezing ever-smaller transistors onto a single surface, the industry is aiming to stack multiple surfaces of transistors and semiconducting elements — akin to turning a ranch house into a high-rise.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jennifer Chu
13 hours agoVolkswagen CEO Olivier Blume faced a huge booing crowd in Germany today, telling tens of thousands of workers that the company isn’t operating in “a fantasy world” and that plants will be closing and jobs will be lost. Here’s the latest. On Monday, a hundred thousand workers walked off at nine …
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
news.mit.edu | Jennifer Chu
Car design is an iterative and proprietary process. Carmakers can spend several years on the design phase for a car, tweaking 3D forms in simulations before building out the most promising designs for physical testing. The details and specs of these tests, including the aerodynamics of a given car design, are typically not made public. Significant advances in performance, such as in fuel efficiency or electric vehicle range, can therefore be slow and siloed from company to company.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
phys.org | Jennifer Chu
Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people's homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate. MIT scientists have developed a method that generates satellite imagery from the future to depict how a region would look after a potential flooding event.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jennifer Chu
9 hours agoIndia: Flying Man Astonishes Global Audience with Jet-Powered Flight at Bengaluru Tech SummitBengaluru, India - November 20, 2024 A "Flying Man" dazzled the audience at a Tech Summit in Bangalore with a remarkable jet suit powered by seven mini jet engines on November 20. The aerial performer Issa Kalfon, 23, became the focal point of excitement and awe at the historic Bangalore Palace.
