The new Polana collisional family in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt is the hypothesized origin of the near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu, which was the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, and (162173) Ryugu, which was the target…
If you’re up late Tuesday night, you’ll have a chance to see three rockets streaking across the sky if you’re in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania or several other eastern states.
NASA plans to launch three sounding rockets within a 5-minute…
Six planets line up in the pre-dawn sky on Wednesday, Aug. 27 — but not for long. Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn will shine brilliantly, joined by fainter Mercury rising shortly before the sun. Uranus and Neptune are also in the parade,…
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My rabbit’s foot fern (Davallia fejeensis) has developed small, brown lumps along its stems and is leaving sticky droplets on nearby surfaces.
What do thumbs and brains have in common? According to recent research, their growth has been linked throughout the evolution of the primates, suggesting that the long thumbs and large brains of modern humans emerged concurrently over time.
The…
Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal Good
By Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered…
Irvine and MIT professor J. Christopher Love, the senior authors of a paper on the work, had found that the combination helped generate more robust immune responses. In the new paper, they showed that the dual-adjuvant vaccine accumulated in the…
Anantha Chandrakasan became the Institute’s new provost on July 1, succeeding Cynthia Barnhart, SM ’86, PhD ’88, who announced her decision to step down in February.
Chandrakasan, who earned his BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering…
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In the researchers’ prototype device, a half-square-meter panel of the hydrogel is enclosed in a glass chamber coated with a cooling polymer film. When the vapor captured by the textured material evaporates, the…
Most people with type 1 diabetes inject insulin to prevent their blood sugar levels from getting too high. However, if their blood sugar gets too low, it can lead to confusion, seizures, and even death.
To combat this hypoglycemia, some…