Technology - general
Custom-controlled climate on airplanes
30 Aug 2012
Mars can be made habitable: top scientist
29 Aug 2012
New technology increases concentrated solar conversion efficiency by 60 %
27 Aug 2012
A promising technology uses superconducting magnets to increase the efficiency of conversion from sunlight to electricity by stripping electrons from high-energy plasma jets
Gibbons use soprano techniques in forests: Study
24 Aug 2012
US to test road safety vehicle-to-vehicle communication
23 Aug 2012
Wireless devices fitted on vehicles would signal each other, warning their drivers of potential dangers such as cars speeding through red lights
Teaching a microbe to make fuel
By By David L Chandler, MIT News Office | 22 Aug 2012
Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.
Plants exhibit a wide range of mechanical properties, engineers find
16 Aug 2012
An MIT researcher has compiled data on the microstructures of a number of different plants, from apples and potatoes to willow and spruce trees, and has found that plants exhibit an enormous range of mechanical properties, depending on the arrangement of a cell wall’s four main building blocks: cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and pectin
Smart wireless power outlets
14 Aug 2012
New router enhances the precision of woodworking
By By Helen Knight, MIT News correspondent | 11 Aug 2012
Extreme plasma theories put to the test
09 Aug 2012
Hawkes’ Super Falcon set for `hydrobatics' at Lake Tahoe
07 Aug 2012
DeepFlight Super Falcon is expected to accomplish an underwater loop like a fighter plane in a 300 ft diameter circle underwater
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute licenses novel “magnetohydrodynamics” solar power technology
07 Aug 2012
Writing graphics software gets much easier
04 Aug 2012
New proteins inhibit HIV infection in cell cultures
By By Helen Dodson | 30 Jul 2012
New proteins inhibit HIV infection in cell cultures
By By Helen Dodson | 30 Jul 2012
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