A check on runaway lake drainage
Draining lakes are unlikely to increase the Greenland ice sheet’s contribution to sea-level rise.
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A new tool measures the distance between phonon collisions
Tabletop setup provides more nuanced picture of heat production in microelectronics.
Circular orbits identified for small exoplanets
Observations of 74 Earth-sized planets around distant stars may narrow field of habitable candidates.
Researchers build new fermion microscope
Instrument freezes and images 1,000 individual fermionic atoms at once.
MIT engineers hand “cognitive” control to underwater robots
With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.
Tracing the evolution of a landscape
Geologist Taylor Perron explores river networks on Earth and beyond.
India drift
MIT researchers explain mystery of India’s rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago.
A memorial built “with big hearts, and all love”
Inspired by an open hand, newly dedicated Collier Memorial opens a gateway to the MIT campus.
Magnifying vibrations in bridges and buildings
Researchers apply computer vision technique to see tiny vibrations in large structures.
Boiling down viscous flow
A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids.
New tabletop detector “sees” single electrons
Magnet-based setup may help detect the elusive mass of neutrinos.
Taking aircraft manufacturing out of the oven
New technique uses carbon nanotube film to directly heat and cure composite materials.
