deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (MIT News) -- It takes a lot to make a wooden table. Grow a tree, cut it down, transport it, mill it … you get the point. It’s a decades-long process. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García…
Genesis of blue lightning into the stratosphere detected…
ESA—Dark clouds, the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk, the flashes of intense light followed by a loud crackling and then a low, rolling thunder – who doesn’t love a good summer thunderstorm. We’ve…
Micropillar compression for finding heat-tolerant alloys
Accurate measurements of crystalline deformation should help engineer stronger components for more energy-efficient turbines. Metals containing niobium silicide are promising materials that can withstand high temperatures and improve efficiency of gas turbines in power plants…
How Brain Paralyzes While Sleeping
Researchers have discovered a group of neurons in the mouse brainstem that suppress unwanted movement during rapid- eye- movement sleep. Tsukuba, Japan — We laugh when we see Homer Simpson falling asleep while driving, while…