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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. We would figure out things like: Do we need more lines between Denver and Chicago?” Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network.

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Physicists Spin Up Quantum Tornadoes

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The research, published in Nature , was conducted by a team of scientists affiliated with the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. These wave-shaped clouds, seen over an apartment complex in Denver, Colo., Of course there can; the universe is quantum. Rick Duffy/Wikipedia.

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. This reduction will happen mostly thanks to better building practices, not greater housing density.