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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Creating a common language | MIT News
A lot has changed in the 15 years since Kaiming He was a PhD student.
“When you are in your PhD stage, there is a high wall between different disciplines and subjects, and there was even a high wall within computer…
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Soft tissue from a 183 million-year-old Jurassic plesiosaur analyzed
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have analysed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it could both swim…
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Quantum theory and thermodynamics: Maxwell’s demon?
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled new insights into the interplay between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The team demonstrated that while quantum theory…
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