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High-orbit satellites could light the way for travel to the moon
The LightHOUSE concept from MIT Lincoln Laboratory calls for multiple satellites acting as cooperative optical beacons in high-altitude orbits to determine the position of spacecraft traveling in cislunar space.
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MIT researchers tackle the economic realities of fusion power
MIT researchers developed a system for determining how to make fusion energy commercially viable in the marketplace.
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Everyday Technology Is Becoming a Black Box. Is There a Cost?
Children once learned by taking things apart. Today's devices do not provide that rewarding activity - and the cognitive consequences may be considerable.
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Diffuse puffs of
Researchers with the CHIME/FRB Collaboration found that diffuse
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The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.
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How the Amish Let Technology inWithout Letting It Take Over
After three years studying the community, I came to see that the real question isn't what technology can do, but what it asks us to give up.
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The False Promise of the First 'Smart' Homes
Computerized rooms, telework stations, and child-soothing technologies sold a seductive illusion that automation could solve the problems of maternal care.
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