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In “Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands,” MIT Assistant Professor Héctor Beltrán explores the relationship between computer culture and society in Mexico. He finds that coding generates fruitful reflection by the coders, about themselves, their political and economic circumstances, and what roles they can play in society.
An MIT-led international team reports a powerful tool for studying and tuning atomically thin materials called moiré systems, where exotic phenomena including superconductivity can occur. The work could lead to heady applications in novel electronics and more.
MIT astronomers mapped the “disk winds” associated with the accretion disk around Hercules X-1, a system in which a neutron star is drawing material away from a sun-like star, represented as the teal sphere. The findings may offer clues to how supermassive black holes shape entire galaxies. Credit:
The 2D map of this “disk wind” may reveal clues to galaxy formation.
Scientists map gusty winds in a far-off neutron star system -