ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
From mice, clues to microbiome’s influence on metabolic…
[caption id="attachment_11623" align="alignnone" width="775"] Nacho Vivas, lab manager at the Rey Lab in the Bacteriology Department, checks on a group of germ-free mice inside a sterile lab environment. PHOTO: BRYCE RICHTER[/caption] The community of microorganisms…
High-sensitivity cameras reveal the atomic structure of metal-organic…
Highly sensitive electron cameras allow researchers to see the atomic structure of metal-organic frameworks. [caption id="attachment_11619" align="alignnone" width="624"] Symmetry-imposed and lattice-averaged HRTEM image of the metal–organic framework ZIF-8 (black and white) with a structural model…
Measuring “diagnostic intensity”
New study maps U.S. regions where patients appear more ill than they are. [caption id="attachment_11616" align="alignnone" width="639"] A new study co-authored by MIT scholars shows regions of the U.S. where medical providers are most likely…
Income inequality linked to export “complexity”
The mix of products that countries export is a good predictor of income distribution, study finds. [caption id="attachment_11604" align="alignnone" width="607"] MIT Professor César Hidalgo and his colleagues argue that everything else being equal, the complexity…