Space science
NASA funded a million USD for the Tess project
The Satellite Planetary Survey Project (TESS) at MIT is one of 11 recent proposals, which are evaluated as potential future scientific missions, according to the US Spac…
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Biology
Implant carbon nanotubes into plant cells to increase photosynthetic efficiency
Recently, a group of researchers at MIT implanted carbon nanotubes into organelles inside plant cells to improve the production efficiency of plants' energy.
Biology
Bacterial discovery is the culprit of the end of the Permian disaster
Scientists have recently discovered that the cause has led to extinction on a global scale, leading to the elimination of about 60% of all species on Earth that took pla…
Biology
Detecting the ability to filter bacteria in the water of pine
People in many parts of the world are still using water from rivers and lakes that contain many dangerous bacteria. Therefore, the water source needs to be filtered befo…
Biology
Catch bacteria that provide fuel for cars
US scientists have found a way to produce biofuels for cars and motor vehicles with a normal bacterium in the soil.
Biology
The imaging system sheds light on the origin of cancer
MIT biologists have developed a descriptive system that allows cells to undergo a certain mutation.
Biology
Discover the secret of spider silk stamina
According to new disclosures published by researchers at MIT's Department of Environmental & Civil Engineering (CEE), the strength of biological materials such as spider…
Biology
Manufacturing artificial spider silk: many useful applications in the future
A group of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has identified two key physical processes, resulting from studying the strength and durability…
Biology
New role of tiny RNA in plant growth
Biological researchers at Rice Institute, MIT found microRNA plays an essential role in gene expression. Discovered for the first time from previous years, scientists ar…
Animal world
Practice improving skills in singing birds
Last year, MIT neuroscientists reported that by studying the songs of tiny birds, they were able to recognize how two separate brain pathways contributed to the form of…
Animal world
Why do animals migrate?
For the first time, engineers at MIT observed the beginning of a centralized migration event involving hundreds of millions of animals.
Animal world
Rats also have emotions
Mice that spend most of their lives running in narrow caves should have good touch and their mustaches carry out most of this function. What scientists have never known…
Scientific application
Nanotechnology helps increase thermal efficiency
Researchers at Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used nanotechnology to make major improvements in the ability to increase thermal e…
Scientific application
Production of geothermal electricity is cheap and clean
A recent study published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) shows that harnessing electricity from the earth's heat can help solve the country's gro…
Environment
There is going to be unlimited clean energy thanks to nuclear reactions
The MIT team recorded a new record of fusion reaction pressure with the Alcator C-Mod reactor under Alcator program.