MIT engineers have devised a framework that will help decide what type of mission would be the most successful to deflect Earth-threatening asteroids. As reported by SciTechDaily, this new decision ...
Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if the conditions are just right. This “pencil beam” enabled them to image the ...
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A satellite carrying a nuclear weapon would not just menace rival spacecraft. It could scramble parts of modern life on Earth. That is the threat behind a new proposal from MIT professor Areg ...
In response to growing concerns over space-based nuclear weapons, MIT has published a feasibility study proposing a satellite-based sensor system to detect nuclear weapons in orbiting satellites. One ...
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A TikTok video of a novel, ancient multiplication method has gone viral. While the user, jesslouisec, calls the method Japanese multiplication and some mathematicians say it’s “Vedic multiplying,” its ...
We developed an optogenetic tool based on tetanus neurotoxin — a protease that cleaves the synaptic vesicle fusion protein VAMP2 to inhibit neurotransmitter release. We show that this light-controlled ...
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