Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? | MIT News

The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive…

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MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials | MIT News

Two of humanity’s most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal),…

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Automation drives income inequality | MIT Technology Review

Acemoglu and coauthor Pascual Restrepo, PhD ’16, looked at US Bureau of Economic Analysis statistics on…

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