Cobalt-free batteries could power cars of the future
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt—a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs.
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt—a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs.
Materials Science
Jan 20, 2024
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A key chemical reaction—in which the movement of protons between the surface of an electrode and an electrolyte drives an electric current—is a critical step in many energy technologies, including fuel cells and the electrolyzers ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 16, 2024
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MIT's Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) announced the public beta release of the MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool (MOCAT) during the 2023 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ...
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2024
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Sequencing all of the RNA in a cell can reveal a great deal of information about that cell's function and what it is doing at a given point in time. However, the sequencing process destroys the cell, making it difficult to ...
Biotechnology
Jan 10, 2024
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In fields such as physics and engineering, partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to model complex physical processes to generate insight into how some of the most complicated physical and natural systems in the world ...
Mathematics
Jan 9, 2024
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Hold your hands out in front of you, and no matter how you rotate them, it's impossible to superimpose one over the other. Our hands are a perfect example of chirality—a geometric configuration by which an object cannot ...
Soft Matter
Jan 8, 2024
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Using a new technology developed at MIT, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling nanoparticle sensors and then taking a urine test that reveals whether a tumor is present.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 5, 2024
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Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers' best chance of finding liquid water, and even life on other planets, is to look for the absence, rather than the presence, of a chemical ...
Astronomy
Dec 29, 2023
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Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the United States every ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 20, 2023
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During a chemical reaction, molecules gain energy until they reach what's known as the transition state—a point of no return from which the reaction must proceed. This state is so fleeting that it's nearly impossible to ...
Analytical Chemistry
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