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Racing with the sun

MIT students' solar-vehicle team makes a strong showing down under.

David L. Chandler, MIT News Office

May 5, 2010

Eleanor charges her battery pack in the hot Australian sun before a test drive in the 2009 World Solar Challenge in October.

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New LiGO technique accelerates training of large machine-learning models, reducing the monetary and environmental cost of developing AI applications.

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Minds wide open

Alan Lightman’s new book asks how a sense of transcendence can exist in brains made of atoms, molecules, and neurons.

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MIT-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable materials

The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.

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A glimpse inside Intel

In MIT visit, CEO Pat Gelsinger sounds a bullish note on the future of U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.

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Fiber “barcodes” can make clothing labels that last

Drawing inspiration from butterfly wings, reflective fibers woven into clothing could reshape textile sorting and recycling.

César Terrer stands in front of a window with potted plants on the sill and a green tree outside.

Detailed images from space offer clearer picture of drought effects on plants

J-WAFS researchers are using remote sensing observations to build high-resolution systems to monitor drought.

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