Technology - general
Smart way of saving lives in natural disasters
04 Jan 2012
Patterns of connections reveal brain functions
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 03 Jan 2012
Neuroscientists identify face-recognition areas based on what parts of the brain they link to.
Simulating firefighting operations on a PC
02 Jan 2012
Fewer animal experiments thanks to nanosensors
02 Jan 2012
Time for a change? Scholars say calendar needs serious overhaul
28 Dec 2011
Using computer programs and mathematical formulae,an astrophysicist and an applied economist have created a new calendar in which each new 12-month period is identical to the one which came before, and remains that way from one year to the next in perpetuity
Flipping an egg carton of light traps giant atoms
By By Nicole Casal Moore | 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