The search for exoplanets – planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system – is a hot topic in astrophysics. Of the various types of exoplanets, one is hot in the literal sense: hot Jupiters, a class of exoplanets…
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Extreme cooling caused extinction of early humans in Europe
Study led by the University College London (UCL) suggests that an extreme cooling period approximately 1.1 million years ago likely contributed to the extinction of early human populations in Europe.
Based on palaeoclimate evidence, the…
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.
NASA’s Perseverance rover…
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Freeman Hrabowski encourages students to “hold fast to dreams” and take time for laughter | MIT News
A group of more than 50 individuals recently had the pleasure of sitting down for an informal chat at MIT with distinguished educator, author, and mathematician Freeman Hrabowski. The group was predominantly composed of…
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How geometry solves architectural problems for bees and wasps
Honeybees and yellow jackets don’t look much like mathematicians — for one thing, they’re smaller. But collectively, the insects can solve a common architectural conundrum using a geometric solution that they evolved independently…
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A 407-million-year-old plant’s leaves skipped the usual Fibonacci spirals
An unusual arrangement of leaves in a 407-million-year-old fossilized plant is complicating scientists’ understanding of plant evolution.
Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving the famous Fibonacci sequence of…
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How to stop quantum computers from breaking the internet’s encryption
Keeping secrets is hard. Kids know it. Celebrities know it. National security experts know it, too.
And it’s about to get even harder.
There’s always someone who wants to get at the juicy details we’d rather keep hidden. Yet…
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2023-24 | MIT News
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 12th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
The full 2024 edition of the…
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Study weighs distant supermassive black holes
Near the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy sits an immense “supermassive” black hole that astronomers call Sagittarius A*.
Scientists theorise that the black hole grew in tandem with our galaxy, and suspect that similar phenomena are at the heart…
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Six with MIT ties win 2023 Hertz Foundation Fellowships | MIT News
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has announced that it has awarded graduate fellowships to six students with ties to MIT. These prestigious awards provide each student with five years of doctoral-level research…
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