Knitting, the age-old craft of looping and stitching natural fibers into fabrics, has received renewed attention for its potential applications in advanced manufacturing. Far beyond their use for garments, knitted textiles are ideal for designing…
Category: 7. Maths
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Ten with MIT connections win 2024 Hertz Foundation Fellowships | MIT News
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to 10 PhD students with ties to MIT. The prestigious award provides each recipient with five years of doctoral-level research funding (up to…
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The embryo assembles itself | ScienceDaily
Biological processes depend on puzzle pieces coming together and interacting. Under specific conditions, these interactions can create something new without external input. This is called self-organization, as seen in a school of fish or a flock…
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Groundbreaking progress in quantum physics: How quantum field theories decay and fission
An international research team around Marcus Sperling, a researcher at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, has sparked interest in the scientific community with pioneering results in quantum physics: In their current study, the…
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AI-controlled stations can charge electric cars at a personal price
As more and more people drive electric cars, congestion and queues can occur when many people need to charge at the same time. A new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden shows how AI-controlled charging stations, through smart…
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The origin of the sun’s magnetic field could lie close to its surface | MIT News
The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed that the sun’s…
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Math discovery provides new method to study cell activity, aging
New mathematical tools revealing how quickly cell proteins break down are poised to uncover deeper insights into how we age, according to a recently published paper co-authored by a Mississippi State researcher and his colleagues from Harvard…
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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships | MIT News
Eleven MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won Fulbright grants to embark on projects overseas in the 2024-25 grant cycle. Two other students were offered awards but declined them to pursue other…
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Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed | MIT News
Senior math major Janabel Xia is a study of a person in constant motion.
When she isn’t sorting algorithms and improving traffic control systems for driverless vehicles, she’s dancing as a member of at least four…
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Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics
When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume. Phase transitions in water are so common most of us probably don’t even think about them, but phase…
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