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Celebrities among those who lost homes as...

January 9, 2025

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires that are burning in and around Los Angeles have burned the homes of several celebrities, including Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore and Paris Hilton. California firefighters are battling wind-whipped fires tearing across the area, destroying homes, clogging roadways as tens of thousands fled and straining resources as the fires burned uncontained Wednesday. Crystal and his wife, Janice, released a statement Wednesday saying their home of 45 years in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood was lost. “Janice…

Wildfires latest: Tens of thousands ordered to...

January 9, 2025

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Fierce wildfires are raging in the Los Angeles area, fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds, sending residents fleeing from burning homes through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. Thousands of firefighters were battling at least three separate blazes on Wednesday, from the Pacific Coast inland to Pasadena. One of the fires was the most destructive in the modern history of the city of LA. Tens of thousands of people have been notified by authorities to evacuate their…

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’

January 9, 2025

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We knew to expect winds. When they came on Tuesday morning, sounding like a tsunami crashing over my family’s home in western Malibu, the utility company shut off our power. We knew the chance of fire was high. I had arrived home for the holidays in early December, and had already been greeted by the Franklin Fire, which had burned the hills black. Now, when my dad and I went in search of electricity, a great plume of smoke…

Monitoring space traffic

January 8, 2025

If there’s a through line in Sydney Dolan’s pursuits, it’s a fervent belief in being a good steward — both in space and on Earth. As a doctoral student in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), Dolan is developing a model that aims to mitigate satellite collisions. They see space as a public good, a resource for everyone. “There’s a real concern that you could be potentially desecrating a whole orbit if enough collisions were to happen,”……

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Al Naslaa in Tayma, Saudi Arabia

January 8, 2025

Some 30 miles south of the Tayma oasis in Saudi Arabia stands a strange rock formation called Al Naslaa. Each balanced on a natural pedestal of sand, two large rocks rise above the desert—or what used to be a single, massive block of sandstone, split down the middle. The split is a narrow, clean slit, known as a “joint” in geology. Due to its laser precision, some conspiracy theorists have suspected advanced ancient technology, or even extraterrestrial involvement. But……

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Images that transform through heat

January 8, 2025

Researchers in MIT Professor Stefanie Mueller’s group have spent much of the last decade developing a variety of computing techniques aimed at reimagining how products and systems are designed. Much in the way that platforms like Instagram allow users to modify 2-D photographs with filters, Mueller imagines a world where we can do the same thing for a wide array of physical objects. In a new open-access paper, her team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)……

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Steinwache in Dortmund, Germany

January 8, 2025

The plain building right behind Dortmund’s central train station hides many secrets. Established as a police station, it was turned into a Gestapo prison during the Nazi rule. Now the building is a memorial museum on resistance and persecution. The police headquarters opened in 1906, and since it was located on Steinstraße, the locals soon started calling the building Steinwache (stone guard). In the 1920s, the police added a five-story prison building next to the initial headquarters. After the……

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Moving Image Archive in Glasgow, Scotland

January 8, 2025

Tucked away at the very back of the Kelvin Hall is the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive, where members of the public can access thousands of hours of footage from the vaults. There are onsite facilities for viewing VHS, betamax, DVD, and Blu-Ray formats, and the center is adorned with film-related artifacts like old projectors, clapperboards, and a Steenbeck 16mm flat-bed editor. There are PCs to browse the full online catalogue, or you can request access to……

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How a Near-Extinct Bird Returned to the...

January 8, 2025

Sado Island perches like a butterfly with its wings outstretched just off the curved west coast of Japan. Yet this land mass is better known as the home of another winged creature: the crested ibis, called toki in Japanese. Hop on a shinkansen (a high-speed train) from Tokyo to Niigata, then board a ferry, and you will arrive at the port of Ryotsu, where a Welcome to Sado sign awaits above a larger-than-life photo of a toki mid-flight. Wander……

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Ruins of the Bayside Cannery in San...

January 8, 2025

Once the third-largest cannery in the United States, the ruins of the Bayside Canning Company are emblematic of the rise and fall of the town of Alviso, California. Sai Yen Chew founded the Precita Canning Company in San Francisco in 1890, but after the 1906 earthquake and ensuing fires, he moved his business to Alviso, the bustling port at the southernmost tip of the San Francisco Bay. In a xenophobic time when Chinese laborers were shunned and discriminated against,……

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Benn scores in OT and Stars erase...

January 8, 2025

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jamie Benn scored on a power play 2:17 into overtime and the Dallas Stars rallied from an early three-goal deficit to defeat the struggling New York Rangers 5-4 on Tuesday night. Jake Oettinger made 21 saves and Dallas defenseman Thomas Harley had a goal and two assists. Harley’s snap shot tied it 4-all at 17:21 of the third period following a terrible turnover by Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller deep in his own end. Benn’s 11th…

Coffee fix: MIT students decode the science...

January 7, 2025

Elaine Jutamulia ’24 took a sip of coffee with a few drops of anise extract. It was her second try. “What do you think?” asked Omar Orozco, standing at a lab table in MIT’s Breakerspace, surrounded by filters, brewing pots, and other coffee paraphernalia. “I think when I first tried it, it was still pretty bitter,” Jutamulia said thoughtfully. “But I think now that it’s steeped for a little bit — it took out some of the bitterness.” Jutamulia and……

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Personal interests can influence how children’s brains...

January 7, 2025

A recent study from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research shows how interests can modulate language processing in children’s brains and paves the way for personalized brain research. The paper, which appears in Imaging Neuroscience, was conducted in the lab of MIT professor and McGovern Institute investigator John Gabrieli, and led by senior author Anila D’Mello, a recent McGovern postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of Texas……

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The Curious Gems of the River Thames

January 7, 2025

On the banks of the River Thames, when the tide is low, a person walking along the shore can see all kinds of things. With a keen eye, you can spot blue-and-white shards of 19th-century pottery, delicate stems of 18th-century clay pipes, brass buttons from coats, and coins dating back to the Romans. And if you look in the right spot on a sunny day, you might see something special: the wink of tiny, dark red stones, shining like……

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The role of modeling in the energy...

January 7, 2025

Joseph F. DeCarolis, administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), has one overarching piece of advice for anyone poring over long-term energy projections. “Whatever you do, don’t start believing the numbers,” DeCarolis said at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) Fall Colloquium. “There’s a tendency when you sit in front of the computer and you’re watching the model spit out numbers at you … that you’ll really start to believe those numbers with high precision. Don’t fall for it…….

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