A localized dust storm on Mars may have played a key role in driving water into the planet’s upper atmosphere, offering fresh clues to how the Red Planet lost much of its water over billions…
Flexible warped nanographene developed for bioimaging
A new water-soluble nanocarbon triggers cell death when exposed to light [caption id="attachment_14591" align="alignright" width="408"] Hydrophilic chains on the periphery impart high water solubility. Credit : ITbM, Nagoya University[/caption] An international team of scientists has…
Saturn’s B ring peaks
[caption id="attachment_14585" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI[/caption] While the Winter Olympics is in full swing in PyeongChang, South Korea, and many winter sport fanatics head to snow-clad mountains to get their thrills on the slopes this…
MIT launches Task Force on the Work of…
Institute-wide effort will study the evolution of jobs in an age of technological advancement. [caption id="attachment_14582" align="alignnone" width="639"] The task force leadership team consists of (right) David Autor, the Ford Professor of Economics and associate…
Bering Strait
[caption id="attachment_14578" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017–18), processed by ESA[/caption] The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the Bering Strait, which connects the Pacific and Arctic Oceans between Russia and the…