Technology - general

Scientists succeed in making the spinal cord transparent

26 Dec 2011

Modelling the spread of radioactivity in seawater

By By Rachel VanCott, MIT Sea Grant | 24 Dec 2011

When earthquake-triggered tsunami waves hit Japan in March, the surging water overtopped seawalls and caused massive damage that resulted in a release of radioactive seawater. Researchers funded by MIT Sea Grant develop a model to examine its near-shore and open-ocean circulation

Water out of thick air

By By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office | 24 Dec 2011

How traditional social networks fuelled Twitter’s spread

By By Denise Brehm, civil and environmental engineeri | 21 Dec 2011

MIT researchers who studied the growth of the newly hatched Twitter from 2006 to 2009 say the site’s early growth in the US actually relied on media attention and traditional social networks based on geographic proximity and socio economic similarity

Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered

By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 21 Dec 2011

Hunting for habitable worlds, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has unveiled two new planets, some 950 light-years away, and though neither planet is Earth’s twin, scientists say the discovery is a technological milestone

Precise insight into developing low-friction surfaces

20 Dec 2011

Data-driven tools show geographical patterns of rainfall extremes in India new light

20 Dec 2011

Industrial “inertia to change” delaying development of zero carbon homes: report

19 Dec 2011

Multisensory integration: when correlation implies causation

17 Dec 2011

Physicists’ ‘light from darkness’ breakthrough named a top 2011 discovery

By By Nicole Casal Moore | 17 Dec 2011

Jumping droplets take a lot of heat, as long as it comes in a cool way

By By Richard Merritt | 16 Dec 2011

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

ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search status

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

Using light, researchers convert 2-D patterns Into 3-D objects

13 Dec 2011

Research on the world’s smallest steam engine may boost designs of highly-efficient micromachines

12 Dec 2011

Research may yield more compact antennae for military use

12 Dec 2011

Vision scientists demonstrate innovative learning method

10 Dec 2011

Making molecular hydrogen more efficiently

By By Jared Sagoff | 10 Dec 2011

New announcement on Higgs Boson experiment expected next week

10 Dec 2011

Research could help people with declining sense of smell

By By Robert Sanders | 10 Dec 2011

UK government to push for open access to publicly funded research

09 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