UPenn engineers created a flexible, durable insulator out of mylar to protect future lunar habitats
Thin stacks of Mylar combined strong vacuum insulation with resistance to repeated compression in laboratory tests.Alumina coatings and…
Oviraptors May Have Needed the Sun to Hatch Their Eggs
New experiments indicate bird-like oviraptorid dinosaurs could not fully warm their eggs with body heat alone, instead combining…
MIT study could unlock next-gen cooling for nuclear cores, spacecraft
Marco Graffiedi, a fifth-year doctoral candidate at MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, is investigating a process…