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Former Sunderland labmates team up at George Washington

Jahred Liddie is a postdoctoral researcher at George Washington University in Hu’s lab. He worked in the Sunderland lab as an undergraduate, Masters, and PhD student. What brought you to the ...
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The Next Frontier In Clean Flight? Jet Fuel From City Waste

Key Takeaways A new study finds that sustainable aviation fuel made from municipal solid waste could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80-90% compared with traditional jet fuel. Municipal solid waste ...
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A New Window into Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS researchers have tested and validated lightweight nanofabricated structures that can passively float in the mesophere, which is about 45 miles above Earth’s surface. The ...
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Designing Better Brain Shunts

Key takeaways Hydrocephalus is a life-threatening condition in which excess cerebrospinal fluid collects in the brain. The condition is usually treated through surgical implantation of brain shunts, ...
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Modeling electric response of materials, a million atoms at a time

Falletta, who now works at Radical AI on accelerating materials discovery, said that foundational models based on the one described in Nature Communications could allow machine learning-enabled ...
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Rubber that resists cracking

When a crack forms in the new material, the long spaghetti strands spread out the stress by sliding past each other, allowing more rubber to crystallize as it stretches, and overall making the ...
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Doubling down on metasurfaces

To demonstrate the power of their device, the team devised an experiment in which they used their bilayer metalens to act on polarized light in the same way that a complicated system of waveplates and ...
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Mapping connections in a neuronal network

John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...
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Sports equipment designed for women, by women

Falkson, a former field hockey player at Dartmouth, became interested in the subject through her mentor Karen Korellis Reuther, Design Critic in Architecture at GSD. Reuther recently wrote about ...
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Concerning levels of PFAS in fish miles away from large contamination source

Fish can accumulate high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), even far from sources of contamination, according to a new study by researchers at The Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...
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Why do materials get stronger when they are deformed?

The earliest blacksmiths in the Bronze and Iron Ages figured out that when they deformed metal through bending or hammering, it became stronger. This process, known as work or strain hardening, is ...
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Undergraduate Programs Applied Mathematics Bioengineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering Environmental Science & Engineering Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering Graduate Programs ...