NASA has begun reducing work related to its Mars Sample Return (MSR) program due to uncertainties about mission funding for next year. That includes an “orderly shutdown” of the Capture, […]
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Five MIT affiliates receive awards from the American Physical Society | MIT News
The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored five MIT community members for their contributions to physics: Professor Wit Busza, Instructor Karol Bacik, postdocs Cari Cesarotti and Chao Li, and Pablo Gaston…
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Surface Water Penetrates Deep into Earth, New Research Suggests
A few decades ago, seismologists identified a thin layer with a lower velocity in Earth’s metallic liquid core. The origin of this layer, known as the E’ layer, has been a mystery. Now, geoscientists have revealed that water from the…
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The power of knowledge | MIT News
In his early career at MIT, Josh Kuffour’s academic interests spanned mathematics, engineering, and physics. He decided to major in chemical engineering, figuring it would draw on all three areas. Then, he found himself…
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Moonshot Provides Blueprint for Future Pandemic Drugs – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
An international crowdsourced campaign to discover an anti-COVID-19 drug has created a blueprint for the accelerated, patent-free development of drugs to treat viral threats to humanity. The results of the campaign, COVID Moonshot – co-led by…
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NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low
Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet.
NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25,…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clocks 4,000 Days on Mars
The mission team is making sure the robotic scientist, now in its fourth extended mission, is staying strong, despite wear and tear from its 11-year journey.
Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012,…
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Possible traces of protoplanet found in Earth’s mantle
In a study of the Earth’s mantle, scientists have identified two compositionally distinct continent-sized anomalies which could be traces of a protoplanet which impacted with Earth during its early formation.
This protoplanet is commonly known…
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Teen uses calculus learned through MITx to better understand his cancer treatment | MIT News
When Dustin Liang was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in June, the cancer consumed his life. But despite a monthlong hospital stay, aggressive chemotherapy treatments, and ongoing headaches, fatigue,…
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Two Fragments of Protoplanet Theia Lie Deep within Earth, Geoscientists Say
A giant collision between the ancient protoplanet Theia and the proto-Earth about 4.5 billion years ago may have formed Earth’s Moon as well as two continent-sized regions — formally known as large low-velocity provinces — within…
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