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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. Image: courtesy of the researchers. —Antoine Allanore.

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MIT systems analysis identifies optimal vehicle platooning strategies

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MIT engineers have studied a simple vehicle-platooning scenario and determined the best ways to deploy vehicles in order to save fuel and minimize delays. We believe that ultimately this thinking will allow us to build new transportation systems in which the cost of transportation will be reduced substantially. —Sertac Karaman.

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MIT-ORNL Team Finds Thin Film Persksovite Material Shows Better Oxygen Reduction Than Bulk; Potential for Improved Power Production from SOFCs

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Researchers from MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, led by MIT professor Yang Shao-Horn, found that La 0.8 A paper on the research was published online 22 June in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Angewandte Chemie International Edition Early View doi: 10.1002/anie.20100192. Biegalski, Hans M.

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A Dragon Comes Home

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It has already been featured at the Toulouse International Fair, where it thrilled onlookers from 9 to 18 April. Larger versions, say the Columbia researchers, will get signals from transmitters located adjacent to internal organs deep within the body to noninvasive external receivers stuck onto the skin. Rats are irrepressible.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. He hopes to talk with Turkey's science minister and the TOGG [Turkish Automobile Joint Venture Group], a new company formed by the government. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He also received a complimentary IEEE student membership.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. Pixar's story doesn't even start with the creation of Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Group, which developed the Pixar Image Computer, the company's first product.

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

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Eileen Tanghal Employer: Black Opal Ventures, New York City Title: Cofounder Education: MIT, London Business School “We want to improve health care accessibility and affordability,” Tanghal says. “To and international defense and intelligence agencies. that funds information technology for U.S. funds outperform all-male managed funds.