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Great big bite for me. Just into The Higgs Boson and beyond on Great Courses. Trying to get some kind of handle on Quantum fie;d theory.. Lecturer is Dr. Sean Carrol. Johns Hopkins. Outstanding lecturer and that might really help/
 
My middle daughter is a senior this year and is interested in studying forensic science in college. We took a tour of the University of New Haven down in CT which has one of the top programs. We toured the labs. It was impressive!
 
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MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

MIT researchers fabricated 3D chips with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The method eliminates thick silicon between layers, leading to better and faster computation, for applications like more efficient AI hardware.
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TipRoast said:
news.mit.edu

MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

MIT researchers fabricated 3D chips with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The method eliminates thick silicon between layers, leading to better and faster computation, for applications like more efficient AI hardware.
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Interesting. This was the field I worked in. Interesting that Samsung is funding a lot of the work, that makes sense given they are the largest supplier of memory chips.. and memory chips especially those used in AI use the 3D die stacking method noted in the piece.
The question of importance is can it be scaled to mass production efficiently and cost effectively. In the memory business cost is king!
 
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How good old mud can lower building costs

MIT researchers developed a method to use lightly treated mud, including soil from a building site, as the “formwork” molds into which concrete is poured. The technique deploys 3D printing and can replace the more costly method of building elaborate wood formworks.
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I just love the term "Progammable Mud."

Programmable Mud MIT

Cargo
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TipRoast said:
news.mit.edu

How good old mud can lower building costs

MIT researchers developed a method to use lightly treated mud, including soil from a building site, as the “formwork” molds into which concrete is poured. The technique deploys 3D printing and can replace the more costly method of building elaborate wood formworks.
news.mit.edu news.mit.edu

I just love the term "Progammable Mud."

Programmable Mud MIT

Cargo
programmablemud.mit.edu programmablemud.mit.edu
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I just love the minds that can imagine such wonders out of whole cloth.

Cheers, :toast:
 
TipRoast said:
Almout four years ago, I started a thread in the P&R forum named "Gravitational Waves Detected" - I don't know why I put it there, but it seemed to be well-received and generated a lot of activity.

It might have done even better if it had been placed in the main forum - there are a number of people on the board that never venture into the P&R forum, and they may have enjoyed reading through the many thoughtful posts that populated that thread, and perhaps would have contributed.

So this thread is a follow-up to that one, but with a wider scope: anything in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

I'll kick things off with this article on quintessence, a form of dark energy that may explain why the universe is expanding faster than all the current models predict.
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I love this and will read up on quintessence when I have time. I'm very well versed and interested in quantum physics etc. So I hope I'll be able to contribute to the thread soon. Thank you for posting this, cuz I didn't even know a P&R forum existed lol.
 
TipRoast said:
www.technologyreview.com

How MIT’s Rad Lab rescued D-Day

After two British physicists invented a revolutionary gadget, MIT researchers used it to develop the radar devices that helped defeat the Nazis.
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Nice article about the early days of radar development and its role during WW2.
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The book "Most Secret War" by British scientist Dr RV Jones is chock full of personal recollections regarding the war years. The cat and mouse "game" between the sides pertaining to technical discoveries and advancements is fascinating.
 
RoadNasty said:
The book "Most Secret War" by British scientist Dr RV Jones is chock full of personal recollections regarding the war years. The cat and mouse "game" between the sides pertaining to technical discoveries and advancements is fascinating.
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I just put a hold request on that at my local library. It's on the shelf, so I should be able to pick it up tomorrow.

Thanks for the tip!

Tip
 
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