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Stanford scientists' computer models help predict tsunami risk
By By Steven Fyffe | 14 Dec 2011
Stanford scientists are using complex computational models to solve the puzzle of the devastating tsunami that struck Japan earlier this year and predict where future tsunamis might occur
A glow of recognition
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 14 Dec 2011
CERN scientists find further signs of `God particle’ Higgs boson
13 Dec 2011
The data while sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, is not enough to make any conclusive statement on its existence, CERN said
Trillion-frame-per-second video
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 13 Dec 2011
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow
Research on the world’s smallest steam engine may boost designs of highly-efficient micromachines
12 Dec 2011
Making molecular hydrogen more efficiently
By By Jared Sagoff | 10 Dec 2011
Research could help people with declining sense of smell
By By Robert Sanders | 10 Dec 2011
Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, melodies
By By Denise Brehm, civil and environmental engineeri | 09 Dec 2011
Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a melody, proving that the structure of each relates to its function in an equivalent way
Yale engineers make solar power more efficient
09 Dec 2011
Capturing carbon dioxide directly from air not realistic in the forseeable future
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 08 Dec 2011
Cars will be power plants of the future
03 Dec 2011
New research predicts if your car is likely to jump a signal
By By Jennifer Chu | 30 Nov 2011
To reduce the number of accidents at intersections, researchers at MIT have devised an algorithm that predicts when an oncoming car is likely to run a red light
A smarter way to make ultraviolet light beams
By by Nicole Casal Moore | 30 Nov 2011
Scientist designs robots for real-world challenges
By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 29 Nov 2011
In the not-too-distant future, robotics-driven missions will be a routine part of disaster response, predicts Nicholas Roy, an MIT associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics
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