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Using machine learning, MIT chemical engineers have created a computational model that can predict how well any given ...

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During the total solar eclipse of Aug. 18, 1868, two astronomers, Pierre Jules César Janssen of France and J. Norman Lockyer ...

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A collaboration involving a Rutgers University-New Brunswick cosmologist, along with hundreds of other researchers and dozens of institutions, is exploring the nature of dark energy, a mysterious ...

“Until now, we thought that solids could not exist above about three times their melting temperatures,” White says. “Our results show that if we heat a material rapidly – that is, before it has time ...

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