NASA Invites Media to Jordan Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
Credit: NASA The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 23, at NASA Headquarters in...
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Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are “nonbinding”
Supreme Court justices today expressed skepticism of AT&T and Verizon’s claim that the Federal Communications Commission’s procedure for imposing fines violated their right to a jury...
Read more12 years after the original and with its themes more relevant than ever, anti-war game This War of Mine is getting a full remake
11 Bit Studios is also working on a new Frostpunk game, and two unannounced projects.
Read moreRansomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to BlackCat Scheme
A cautionary tale illustrates why the person negotiating should never be involved with any part of the ransom payment process.
Read moreWe translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp’s new book, cowritten with...
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A natural protein may protect the GI tract from infection
Embedded in the body’s mucosal surfaces, proteins called lectins bind to sugars found on cell surfaces. A team led by MIT chemistry professor Laura Kiessling has...
Read moreThis tool could show how consciousness works
How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent...
Read moreEarly life may have breathed oxygen earlier than believed
Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on Earth. But MIT geobiologists...
Read moreAnalog computing from waste heat
Heat generated by electronic devices is usually a problem, but a team led by Giuseppe Romano, a research scientist at MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, has...
Read moreGet ready for hotter, muggier, stormier summers
A long stretch of humid heat followed by a powerful thunderstorm is a familiar weather pattern in the tropics, but it’s also becoming more common in...
Read moreRecent books from the MIT community
Priority Technologies: Ensuring US Security and Shared ProsperityEdited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds, professor of the practice of urban studies and planning and former executive director of...
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