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MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Marks its Tenth Anniversary
Key players in the mini-UROP’s behind-the-scenes work reflect on what the program has come to mean to the Institute.
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New AI Model Discovers Optimally Stiff and Tough Composites
Hitchless car suspension, indestructible planes, and bone-like prosthetics. All three require materials that are both stiff and tough — a new AI program developed by researchers at MIT might be able to deliver just that.
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Uncovering secrets at the bottom of Earth’s oceans
From sharks that can live for up to 400 years to microbes that could be the evolutionary ancestors of all complex life on Earth: if we’ve learned anything about Earth’s oceans in the past decade, it’s how little we really know. When each year brings a new and unexpected find, one begins to wonder: how much are we missing?