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Sunday November 1, 2020 / 15 , Rabi' al-awwal , 1442

Technology

On the right is a porous anodized aluminum oxide membrane. The left side shows the same membrane after coating it with a thin layer of gold, making the membrane conductive for electrochemical gas gating. — courtesy Felice Frankel

7 days ago

A controllable membrane to pull carbon dioxide out of exhaust streams

By David L. ChandlerA new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air. The key component is an electrochemically assisted membrane whose permeability to gas can be switched on and off at will, using no moving parts and relatively little energy.The membranes...

5 hours ago

US gas production sets new records in Pennsylvania and the Permian

6 hours ago

UN ‘stands ready to assist’ in Aegean Sea earthquake tragedy — Guterres

6 hours ago

Sustainable urbanization critical to COVID-19 recovery, better quality of life

6 hours ago

Global Village breaks first of 25 Guinness World Records titles

Helen Schwerdt, a postdoc in Ann Graybiel's lab, builds ultrathin probes (blue) that target brain microstructures with pinpoint accuracy. — courtesy photo: Michael D. Spencer

October 17, 2020

Scientists uncover new clues about Parkinson’s disease

This image shows a cutaway rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy. — courtesy CFS/MIT-PSFC — CAD Rendering by T. Henderson

October 3, 2020

Validating the physics behind the new MIT-designed fusion experiment

Artistic impression of electric conduction and superconductor proximity effect in a heated graphene bolometer. — courtesy Heikka Valja.

September 30, 2020

IQM staff publishes a quantum-computer breakthrough in Nature

3D artistic illustration of the wide-field-of-view metalens capturing a 180° panorama of MIT’s Killian Court and producing a high-resolution monochromatic flat image.” Credits: Mikhail Shalaginov, Tian Gu, Christine Daniloff, Felice Frankel, Juejun Hu

September 26, 2020

Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat

Using four cameras mounted on a dog-like robot developed by Boston Dynamics, the researchers have shown that they can measure skin temperature, breathing rate, pulse rate, and blood oxygen saturation in healthy patients, from a distance of 2 meters. — Courtesy of the researchers

September 9, 2020

Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs By Anne TraftonDuring the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a health care worker’s job is assessing people who have symptoms of COVID-19. Researchers from MIT, Boston...

The new Instagram feature will let users record and edit 15-second videos with audio, and will let users add visual effects. Users will be able to share Reels with followers on Instagram in a dedicated section called Reels in Explore. — Courtesy photo

August 6, 2020

Facebook launches its new TikTok clone, Instagram Reels

August 1, 2020

Deepfakes, explained

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