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China Plans To Bring Back Samples of Venusian Clouds

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Venus Sample Return Mission Challenges Sara Seager , a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led a team to put together a Venus atmosphere sample return mission proposal in 2022. Mission proposals like MITs offer a window into the daunting technical challenges that Chinas team is facing.

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Teething Babies and Rainy Days Once Cut Calls Short

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In her new book, License to Spill: Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives (The MIT Press, 2025), Plotnick explores the dynamic between everyday wetness and media devices through historical and contemporary examples, including cameras, vinyl records, and laptops. Reprinted with permission from The MIT Press. Copyright 2025.

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Tesla Is In For A Rough Spell. Musk Believes Autonomy Will Save It

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MIT actually does a pretty interesting interactive version of this question called the Moral Machine ( which you can try out here ), but thats not what I really want to discuss today. Email: tips@insideevs.com Join the conversation ( ) POPULAR Teslas Cheaper EV Is Just A Model Y, Musk Says Teslas Quarter Was Pretty Brutal.

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MIT researchers boost efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

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Researchers at MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of carbon capture and conversion systems that use catalytic surfaces to enhance the rates of carbon-sequestering electrochemical reactions. The movement through water is sluggish, which slows the rate of conversion of the carbon dioxide.

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IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Changes Students’ Lives

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The scholarship supported her education at MIT , where she earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. I really enjoyed the conversation with my interviewers,” he says. “We She plans to study electrical engineering at MIT. She is also a new mother. She is a high school senior at the Bishop’s School in La Jolla, Calif.,

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MIT researchers develop optimized sulfidation separation process for rare earth and other key metals

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New processing methods developed by MIT researchers could help ease looming shortages of the essential metals that power everything from phones to automotive batteries by making it easier to separate these rare metals from mining ores and recycled materials. —Antoine Allanore. Cite this article Stinn, C., Allanore, A.

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MIT/Stanford team develops battery technology for the conversion of low-grade waste heat to power; TREC

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Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. These features lead to a high heat-to-electricity energy conversion efficiency of 5.7% Click to enlarge.

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