Technology - general
Scientists develop formula for a biologically effective perfume
05 Feb 2013
Researchers crack the olfactory code for partner selection and synthesise the first biologically effective perfume
Skeletal remains of King Richard III identified
04 Feb 2013
Experts have unanimously identified the remains discovered in Leicester city centre as being those of King Richard lll, the last Plantagenet king who died in battle in 1485
The armchair as a fitness trainer
04 Feb 2013
Toward practical compressed sensing
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 02 Feb 2013
Tiny lights could spark communications revolution
01 Feb 2013
Minute LED lights could deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications, while displaying information and illuminating homes
Brain cells shape temperature preferences
31 Jan 2013
Cardiac development needs more than protein-coding genes
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 29 Jan 2013
Storing data in individual molecules
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 24 Jan 2013
An international team of researchers demonstrates the possibility of molecular memory near room temperature that promises a 1,000-fold increase in storage density
Wind in the willows boosts biofuel production
22 Jan 2013
Willow trees cultivated for green energy can yield up to five times more biofuel if they grow diagonally, compared with those that are allowed to grow naturally up towards the sky.
Astronomers identify largest structure in the universe
14 Jan 2013
The discovered structure is so large that it challenges Albert Einstein’s cosmological principle, which assumes that the universe, when viewed at a sufficiently large scale, looks the same irrespective of wherever you are observing it from