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Professor Mark Drela (center), chief engineer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aircraft design team, helps undergraduate students Nina Siu…

One of the advanced design concepts – the D8 or "double bubble" – is now a subscale model being tested…

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Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to form larger rivers. But where water rushes, ice…

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One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people.…

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The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it…

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