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MIT researchers improve upon methods to model urban air pollution

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Researchers at MIT have developed a new detailed air-quality model to simulate the effects of physical, chemical, and meteorological processing of highly reactive trace species in urban areas. Urban regions account for an ever increasing fraction of Earth’s population, and are consequently an ever increasing source of air pollutants.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. Boom went on to garner more than US $150 million from various venture funds and Japan Airlines. Will people soon be jetting across the Pacific in three hours?