Seven MIT faculty members are among the 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 24.
One of the…
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Archaeologists use revolutionary GPR robot to explore Viking Age site
Archaeologist from NIKU are using a revolutionary new GPR robot to explore a Viking Age site in Norway’s Sandefjord municipality.
The robot has been developed as part of a collaboration between AutoAgri, Guideline Geo/MÅLÅ, and NIKU, and uses…
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Study demonstrates efficacy of MIT-led Brave Behind Bars program | MIT News
Several years ago, a team of scientists from MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell designed and deployed a first-of-its-kind web programming course for incarcerated individuals across multiple correctional…
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A rapid shift in ocean currents could imperil the world’s largest ice shelf
Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, buttressing a dozen major glaciers and slowing their flow into the ocean, may be surprisingly sensitive to warming.
Several thousand years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf and the glaciers feeding it thinned…
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Moon may have influenced Stonehenge construction
A study by a team of archaeoastronomers are investigating the possible connection of the moon in influencing the Stonehenge builders.
According to a press statement by the Royal Astronomical Society, academics from Oxford, Leicester and…
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Microbe X-32 – Is the Plasticene Era coming to an end?
Breaking, a new venture in collaboration with Harvard and the Wyss Institute, is claiming that a new discovery, Microbe X-32, can naturally break down polyolefins, polyesters, and polyamides in just 22 months.
Based on a 2022 study, approximately…
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The Alaca Höyük meteoric dagger
The Alaca Höyük meteoric dagger is an iron forged dagger with extraterrestrial origins.
During the Bronze Age, iron was more valued than gold (evidenced in the Kültepe tablets of 1950 BC), and very few ancient cultures had the smelting…
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Mars: News & Features – NASA Science
NASA to Host Media Call Highlighting Mars Sample Return Update
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Ford Nucleon – The atomic-powered car
The Nucleon is an unrealised concept car designed by the Ford Motor Company in 1957.
In 1945, the publication, The Atomic Age, heralded the untapped use of atomic power in everyday objects and predicted a future where fossil fuels would become…
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