AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ultrasmall bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified the strain PMX.108T as new species and genus of…
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New Alternatives to GPS could Be Jamming- and Spoof-Proof
This year, two companies—Santa Clara, California-based Anello Photonics and Montreal-based One Silicon Chip Photonics (OSCP)—have introduced new gyroscope-on-a-chip navigation systems, allowing for precise heading and distance tracking…
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Trace Metals and Other Nutrients from Whale Feces Fertilized Ancient Oceans, New Study Confirms
Blue whales and other baleen whales, which filter seawater through their mouths to feed on small marine life, once teemed in Earth’s oceans. In the 20th century, 1.5 million baleen whales were slaughtered in the southern hemisphere,…
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A man volunteered to get brain implants for depression. Hear his story
Meet Jon Nelson. He’s a dad, a husband, a coach and a professional who works in marketing. But underneath it all, he suffered – for years – from severe depression. His suffering was so great that he volunteered for an experimental…
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Puzzling out climate change | MIT News
Shreyaa Raghavan’s journey into solving some of the world’s toughest challenges started with a simple love for puzzles. By high school, her knack for problem-solving naturally drew her to computer science. Through her…
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Can deep learning transform heart failure prevention? | MIT News
The ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle once concluded that the human heart is tri-chambered and that it was the single most important organ in the entire body, governing motion, sensation, and thought.
Today,…
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How Does a Nucleus Get Its Shape?
• Physics 18, 28
A new computational method could help scientists understand the shapes of deformed nuclei from first principles.
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Quantum Milestones, 1928: The Dirac Equation Unifies Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity
• Physics 18, 20
A seminal paper by Paul Dirac, who relied on mathematical intuition, laid the foundation for quantum electrodynamics.
For the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, we are republishing…
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MP Materials starts producing neodymium magnets in the US
In mid-January, a top United States materials company announced that it had started to manufacture rare earth magnets. It was important news—there are no large U.S. makers of the neodymium magnets that underpin huge and vitally important…
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Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 Jet Completes Mach 1 Test
Boom Supersonic’s prototype passenger jet, the XB-1, has officially gone supersonic. The human-piloted demonstrator hit Mach 1.122 (or 1,385 kilometers per hour) at a 10.7-kilometer altitude over the Mojave Desert on 28 January—marking a…
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