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The New Supersonic Boom

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Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Boom has stated that its plane will go supersonic only over water.

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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., exhibit what’s called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Rick Duffy/Wikipedia.

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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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