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Pink granite boulders sitting mysteriously atop Antarctica’s Hudson Mountains have led scientists to a stunning discovery: a hidden granite mass buried beneath Pine Island Glacier, stretching nearly 100 km wide and 7 km thick. By dating the rocks to the Jurassic period and matching them with gravity signals detected fromContinue Reading

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams will exit the International Space Station and conduct a spacewalk to install a modification kit and route cables on the port side of the orbital lab where a new roll-out solar array will be attached on a future spacewalk. NASA Live coverage isContinue Reading

The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.”  During the MITEIContinue Reading

Thermal batteries can efficiently store energy as heat. But building them requires a carefully designed system with materials that can withstand cycles of extremely high temperatures, without succumbing to problems like corrosion, thermal expansion, and structural fatigue. Many thermal battery systems move high-temperature gas or molten salt around through metalContinue Reading

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The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and possibly in under 2,000 years—after the disaster. Scientists uncovered this rapid rebound by using a rare isotope marker toContinue Reading