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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. The report is based on the findings of a major MIT symposium on retrofitting coal-fired power...
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Location: WA, United States
Enriching the uranium for reactor fuel and opening the reactor periodically
to refuel it are among the most cumbersome and expensive steps in running a
nuclear plant. And after spent fuel is removed from the reactor, reprocessing it
to...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains,
planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while
macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects—mangled steel, bruised...
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Location: Durham University, United Kingdom
A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham
University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects
into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.
The £6.3million...
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
The unknown human health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology are a
bigger worry for scientists than for the public, according to a new report
published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The new report was based on a...
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Location: Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyRoom 66-45477 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge MA 02139, United States
Icelanders, who get most of their heating, hot water and a good portion of their electricity from geothermal sources, are well aware that Reykjavik, which means "Smoky Bay," is named for the steam from the local hot springs. In the United States,...
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