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“Oxford University researchers have developed a sensor made of sapphire fibre that can tolerate extreme temperatures, with the potential to enable significant improvements in efficiency and emission reduction in aerospace and power generation. The work, published in the journal Optics …
News Serial 64-Mbit SuperFlash® Memory Extends Options for Designing Space Systems Using Radiation-Tolerant COTS-Based Devices
“The SST26LF064RT memory device is Microchip’s second SuperFlash technology-based offering to be space qualified. Designers of spaceflight-qualified systems have a great need to reduce development time, cost and risk in their systems. Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) proposed the …
“Scientists use ‘impressive’ chemistry that opens new doors for hard drives and other cutting-edge technology Sometimes making a brand-new type of box requires outside-the-box thinking, which is exactly what Spartan chemists used to create an eight-atom, magnetic cube. That tiny …
“Quantum mechanics has a way of taking your mind to places it just doesn’t want to go. Famously hard to understand and impossible to intuit, concepts such as quantum entanglement and superposition really make sense only when viewed through …
“Engineers at Stanford and Harvard have laid the groundwork for a new system for 3D printing that doesn’t require that an object be printed from the bottom up. While 3D printing techniques have advanced significantly in the last decade …
“In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions. Why do people wear Rolex watches or drive Bentleys, when less expensive goods can perform better? Why does anyone fight …
“If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth’s sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in place, always facing the sun the way the same side of the moon always faces Earth. The …
“Seventy years ago this spring, the first fully electronic computer at what is today Los Alamos National Laboratory came online. Called the MANIAC, it was constructed when electronic computing and its associated industry were still in their infancy. Early computer …
“The design could someday enable a fully decarbonized power grid, researchers say. Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to …
News Developing electricity-powered, low-emissions alternatives to carbon-intensive industrial processes
“The Center for Electrification and Decarbonization of Industry unites MIT climate researchers to create scalable clean energy solutions under one roof. On April 11, 2022, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative …