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West Lafayette, Indiana - The Purdue University-based Useful to Usable climate initiative is taking some of the guesswork out of crop nitrogen management for more farmers by expanding its Corn Split N tool to include all Corn Belt states.
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West Lafayette, Indiana - An ultrapure material taken to pressures greater than that in the depths of the ocean and chilled to temperatures colder than outer space has revealed an unexpected phase transition that crosses two different phase categories.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Optimization problems are everywhere in engineering: Balancing design tradeoffs is an optimization problem, as are scheduling and logistical planning. The theory — and sometimes the implementation - of control systems relies heavily on optimization, and so does machine learning, which has been the basis of most recent advances in artificial intelligence.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Graduate student Natalia Rigol has followed an unusual path to MIT: Her childhood in Cuba was tainted by poverty, and then her entire family received hard-to-come-by visas, enabling her to live out her elementary and middle school years in Russia and the Czech Republic - but with little understanding of the local languages.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - It’s a well-known characteristic of metals that repeated bending in the same place can cause the material to weaken and eventually break; this phenomenon, known as metal fatigue, can cause serious damage to metal components subjected to repeated stress.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - It is well known that an earthquake in one part of the world can trigger others thousands of kilometers away.
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