Brewing up Earth’s earliest life | MIT News
Large concentrations of sulfites and bisulfites in shallow lakes may have set the stage for Earth’s first biological molecules.
April 8, 2018 • ~9 min
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Lessons in NASA leadership | MIT News
Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa and AeroAstro Professor Dava Newman share experiences as leaders of the U.S. space program.
April 5, 2018 • ~5 min
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Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets | MIT News
Machine-learning system uses physics principles to augment data from NASA crowdsourcing project.
March 29, 2018 • ~7 min
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Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star | MIT News
Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.
March 18, 2018 • ~8 min
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Modeling the universe | MIT News
MIT's Mark Vogelsberger and an international astrophysics team have created a new model pointing to black holes’ role in galaxy formation.
Jan. 31, 2018 • ~7 min
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Prototypes for the new space age | MIT News
The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative shares results and next steps from its first zero gravity research mission.
Jan. 26, 2018 • ~5 min
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Two from AeroAstro named to Aviation Week's “20 Twenties” for 2018 | MIT News
Grad students Alexa Aguilar and Arthur J. Brown receive honor that recognizes outstanding student academic performance, civic contributions, and research.
Jan. 17, 2018 • ~4 min
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Citizen scientists discover five tightly packed exoplanets | MIT News
The planetary system’s dense configuration gives clues to its formation
Jan. 11, 2018 • ~7 min
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Drug manufacturing that’s out of this world | MIT News
Continuous-flow chemistry device used for drug production could find use in long-duration space missions.
Jan. 5, 2018 • ~9 min
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Scientists observe supermassive black hole in infant universe | MIT News
Findings present a puzzle as to how such a huge object could have grown so quickly.
Dec. 6, 2017 • ~7 min
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