Technology - general
Why men 'exhibit warrior tendencies'
24 Jan 2012
Gossip can be therapeutic, says new research
By By Yasmin Anwar | 21 Jan 2012
Goshawks help researchers determine critical-speed limits for UAVs
By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 21 Jan 2012
MIT researchers say that a northern goshawk's speed is not based on what it can see; given a certain density of obstacles, there exists a speed below which a flying object has a fair chance of flying collision-free. The finding can help engineers program UAVs to fly at higher speeds
Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 20 Jan 2012
The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
19 Jan 2012
Language did not evolve for communicating
By By Emily Finn, MIT News Office | 19 Jan 2012
Cognitive scientists develop a new take on an old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings
A step closer to mapping the Earth in 3D
18 Jan 2012
Topography determined bacterial consumption of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
12 Jan 2012
Scientists document how geology, biology worked together after oil disaster
A new twist to surface tension
11 Jan 2012
How does our brain know what is a face and what’s not?
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 09 Jan 2012
The researchers found that activation in the left side of the fusiform gyrus preceded that of the right side by a couple of seconds, supporting the hypothesis that the left side does its job first and then passes information on to the right side, which is involved in making the categorical declaration of whether an image is a face or not
To speed people up, human leg muscle slows down
09 Jan 2012
The case of the missing gas mileage
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office | 06 Jan 2012
Automakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades — but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist explains the conundrum
3-D cameras for cellphones
By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 06 Jan 2012
Clever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera so simple and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into handheld devices at very little extra cost