Abu Dhabi, May 21 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) opened its thirty-first Council meeting on Wednesday at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, with more than 300 government representatives attending in person and online.…
MIT’s Koch Institute & Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center receive…
The gift will augment the scope of the Bridge Project, fund additional cross-institutional teams, and expedite bench-to-bedside translation. MIT News-- The Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research has pledged $20 million to the Bridge Project, a collaborative…
Galapagos tortoise species ID’d from specimen in UW…
[caption id="attachment_6502" align="alignright" width="600"] The skull and scutes of a newly-identified species of Galapagos giant tortoise in the UW-Madison Zoological Museum. The tortoise, which was hiding in plain sight on the Galapagos island of Santa…
Metal defects can be eliminated by cyclic loading
Finding shows small amounts of repeated stretching can eliminate crystal defects in nanoscale metal parts. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--It’s a well-known characteristic of metals that repeated bending in the same place can cause the material to weaken…
Triggered earthquakes give insight into changes below Earth’s…
Quakes can change elastic properties of the Earth’s crust up to 6,000 kilometers away. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It is well known that an earthquake in one part of the world can trigger others thousands of kilometers…