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Emilio Baglietto: Better reactors grow from better simulations
Posted from MIT News - Topic - Material... 2 days ago
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Nuclear fission technology is the only viable grid-scale source of continuous, carbon-free electricity available today — but realizing its potential in the fight against global climate change requires substantial improvements in both the technological and the economic performance of new-generation... (original story)
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Big Idea: Seeing Crime Before It Happens
Posted from Discover Magazine | Materia... 2 days ago
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This past summer, at an undisclosed location in a northeastern metropolis, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was trying to predict the future. There were no psychics or crystal balls, just a battery of sensors designed to determine human intention through the subtlest of changes in hea... (original story)
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3.021J Introduction to Modeling and Simulation (MIT)
Posted from MIT OpenCourseWare: New Cou... 16 days ago
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This subject provides an introduction to modeling and simulation (IM/S), covering continuum methods, atomistic and molecular simulation (e.g. molecular dynamics) as well as quantum mechanics. These tools play an increasingly important role in modern engineering. You will get hands-on training in bot... (original story)
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Making her move
Posted from MIT News - Topic - Material... 16 days ago
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These days, senior Bethany Tomerlin is just like any other MIT student: She juggles a host of academic and research commitments, plays flute in the MIT Marching Band, and — when she finds a sliver of spare time — indulges what she calls her “pop culture vice” with friends in her dormitory. B... (original story)
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Need a new material? New tool can help
Posted from MIT News - Topic - Material... 21 days ago
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Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties — whether it’s to build a better mousetrap or a better battery — will now be able to do so far more easily than ever before.Using ... (original story)
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A novel way to concentrate sun’s heat
Posted from MIT News - Topic - Material... 21 days ago
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Most technologies for harnessing the sun’s energy capture the light itself, which is turned into electricity using photovoltaic materials. Others use the sun’s thermal energy, usually concentrating the sunlight with mirrors to generate enough heat to boil water and turn a generating turbine. A t... (original story)
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Top 100 Stories of 2011: #5: Social Media Stoke Unrest and Ignite Web-Rights Debate
Posted from Discover Magazine | Materia... 21 days ago
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Faced with blazing streets and rioting youth, the representatives of a struggling government convened an emergency meeting one day last summer to figure out how to quash the unrest and reassert authority. In his opening remarks to the assembled lawmakers, a powerful political leader suggested the su... (original story)
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Top 100 Stories of 2011: #97: CIA Said to Exploit Vaccine Drive in Pakistan
Posted from Discover Magazine | Materia... 21 days ago
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After Osama bin Laden was killed last May, reports emerged that months earlier, the Central Intelligence Agency had held a vaccination drive in an attempt to collect DNA from his relatives and help confirm his whereabouts in Abbottabad, where he was thought to be hiding. The CIA would not confirm or... (original story)
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Electronics takes on a new spin
Posted from MIT News - Topic - Material... 21 days ago
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Exotic materials called topological insulators, discovered just a few years ago, have yielded some of their secrets to a team of MIT researchers. For the first time, the team showed that light can be used to obtain information about the spin of electrons flowing over the material’s surface, and ha... (original story)
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Research update: Sharpening the lines
Posted from MIT News - Topic - Material... 21 days ago
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The microchip revolution has seen a steady shrinking of features on silicon chips, packing in more transistors and wires to boost chips’ speed and data capacity. But in recent years, the technologies behind these chips have begun to bump up against fundamental limits, such as the wavelengths of li... (original story)
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