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JUNE 28, 2023
Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. One was an MIT electrical engineering student to whom she had given one of her old spectrometers to start his research.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2013
The Materials Project , an open-platform webtool to predict material behavior hosted at DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in collaboration with MIT, is working with Intermolecular, Inc., MIT launching MOOC on innovation and commercialization of materials technologies.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. But for proof, the R1T successfully completed the TransAmerica Trail, a roughly 5,000-mile gauntlet from North Carolina to the Oregon coast. Instead, it’s the Rivian R1T, from the California start-up that’s already made founder R.J.
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2016
million, and selections include the University of California-Riverside; the University of Montana; Missoula; the North Carolina Biotechnology Center; the State University of New York; and Pennsylvania State University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The USDA is funding five projects for a total of $7.3
Cars That Think
JANUARY 1, 2024
Journey to the Center of the Earth To unlock the terawatt potential of geothermal energy, MIT startup Quaise Energy is testing a deep-drilling rig in 2024 that will use high-power millimeter waves to melt a column of rock down as far as 10 to 20 kilometers. This story is part of our Top Tech 2024 special report.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
This then is a story that ends with me watching Interstellar and listening to its soaring soundtrack in glorious high fidelity, but begins with my wife’s childhood in North Carolina. I made fitful attempts to find a replacement tube, searching eBay and scouring the formidable MIT Radio Society Swapfests.
Cars That Think
MAY 10, 2023
The discovered materials are a very tiny fraction of the hypothesized materials—like a droplet of water in an ocean,” wrote MIT professor of nuclear science Mingda Li over email. But those materials don’t yet exist, and discovering them is a Herculean task that involves synthesizing and testing large numbers of hypothesized materials.
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