Fireworks shoot into the air framing MIT's patriotic red, white and blue lit dome from the Esplanade during Wednesday night's July 4th display. Photo / Brian Hemond
Fabric samples are headed to the International Space Station for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.
MIT is among nine universities selected as part of a program sponsored by the DoE to support science-based modeling and simulation and exascale computing technologies.
