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Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe indicate that these monster objects - this one equal to 17 billion suns - may be more common than once thought, according to UC Berkeley astronomers.
Taking on melanoma, one cell at a time
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- Written by MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Single-cell analysis is a groundbreaking approach now being used across biological fields to explore a common problem: how to study cellular diversity in cell environments with heterogeneous populations. Such diversity can have profound implications for cell survival and proliferation, response to drug therapies and interventions, as well as myriad other biological processes.
Ideas in orbit
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- Written by Jessica Fujimori
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Talk for a while with MIT senior Raichelle Aniceto about satellites, and you might find you’ve caught the aerospace bug. An aeronautics and astronautics major from Salt Lake City, Aniceto has a contagious enthusiasm for the space gadgets she’s spent the last four years helping to develop.
Stabilizing quantum bits
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. They exploit a property called superposition, which describes a quantum particle’s counterintuitive ability to, in some sense, inhabit more than one physical state at the same time.
How network effects hurt economies
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - When large-scale economic struggles hit a region, a country, or even a continent, the explanations tend to be big in nature as well.
How crispy is your bonbon?
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Since the 1600s, chocolatiers have been perfecting the art of the bonbon, passing down techniques for crafting a perfectly smooth, even chocolaty shell.
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