Los Angeles Times: Having invented a better battery, MIT’s Yet-Ming Chiang tried to manufacture the batteries first in the US, then in China. Neither of those early attempts proved successful. The US was too costly; China was too lax about protecting his intellectual property. Now, with the help of a US government grant, Chiang is set to open his first factoryâmdash;in a former videotape plant in Detroit.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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