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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
Safeguarding skeletons using 3D digitisation
28 Nov 2011
Using ionised plasmas as cheap sterilisers for developing world
By By Robert Sanders | 21 Nov 2011
Want fuel cells? Think outside the hydrogen tank
21 Nov 2011
UN warns cassava virus, first identified by Bristol researchers, nearing an epidemic in Africa
18 Nov 2011
Amplifier helps diamond spy on atoms
17 Nov 2011
The first hairy microbes: new fossils reveal oldest known ciliates
By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 16 Nov 2011
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