Technology - general

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

Yale engineers make solar power more efficient

09 Dec 2011

New insights into how the brain reconstructs the third dimension

08 Dec 2011

Capturing carbon dioxide directly from air not realistic in the forseeable future

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 08 Dec 2011

First habitable super-Earth discovered in orbit around a Sun-like star

07 Dec 2011

Cars will be power plants of the future

03 Dec 2011

Wastewater system generates energy, produces drinking water

03 Dec 2011

Researchers create “squeezed” quantum vacuum filled with atoms

03 Dec 2011

Bacteria engineered to eat switchgrass and make transportation fuels

02 Dec 2011

New research predicts if your car is likely to jump a signal

By By Jennifer Chu | 30 Nov 2011

To reduce the number of accidents at intersections, researchers at MIT have devised an algorithm that predicts when an oncoming car is likely to run a red light

A smarter way to make ultraviolet light beams

By by Nicole Casal Moore | 30 Nov 2011