Technology - general
Even graphene has weak spots
30 Mar 2013
How hard is it to 'de-anonymize' cellphone data?
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 28 Mar 2013
How hard is it to 'de-anonymize' cellphone data?
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 27 Mar 2013
Erasing electronic footprints
26 Mar 2013
A ‘cleaner app’ which allows those at risk from domestic violence to seek help online without leaving an electronic trail behind them has been developed by Newcastle University
Erasing electronic footprints
26 Mar 2013
A ‘cleaner app’ which allows those at risk from domestic violence to seek help online without leaving an electronic trail behind them has been developed by Newcastle University
New solar-cell design based on dots and wires
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 26 Mar 2013
Breakthrough in race to create 'bio-batteries'
26 Mar 2013
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria.
Compact radar takes an inside view
25 Mar 2013
World’s biggest study of food allergies gets underway
23 Mar 2013
The world's biggest ever study of allergies, spearheaded by Britain's University of Manchester, officially got underway on Friday, 22 March 2013.
Men more likely than women to commit scientific fraud
22 Mar 2013
Male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs across the career spectrum, from trainees to senior faculty
Predicted state of atomic collapse seen for first time
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 16 Mar 2013
Atomic collapse, a phenomenon first predicted in the 1930s based on quantum mechanics and relativistic physics but never before observed, has now been seen for the first time in an “artificial nucleus” simulated on a sheet of graphene
Nine-month infants display people prejudices
By By Bill Hathaway | 15 Mar 2013
After another near miss, Stanford professor wants to find asteroids that threaten Earth
By By Bjorn Carey | 15 Mar 2013
Japan becomes first country to extract iced 'gas'
13 Mar 2013
In a dramatic breakthrough, Japanese researchers have extracted gas from methane hydrates from beneath the sea, for the first time ever, through a technology that could radically change the world's energy outlook
Making cloud computing more efficient
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 13 Mar 2013
For database-driven applications, new software could reduce hardware requirements by 95 per cent while actually improving performance
Scientists calculate carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies
By By Mark Shwartz | 12 Mar 2013
Developing grid-scale storage batteries to store surplus renewable power and deliver it on demand, would consume such vast amounts of fossil fuel that it could negate some of the environmental benefits of new solar and wind farms