Technology - general

Scientist designs robots for real-world challenges

By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 29 Nov 2011

In the not-too-distant future, robotics-driven missions will be a routine part of disaster response, predicts Nicholas Roy, an MIT associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics

Climate sensitivity to CO2 more limited than extreme projections, says new study

28 Nov 2011

Playing music alters the processing of multiple sensory stimuli in the brain

28 Nov 2011

Safeguarding skeletons using 3D digitisation

28 Nov 2011

Unique method behind transplant of artificial trachea

24 Nov 2011

Using ionised plasmas as cheap sterilisers for developing world

By By Robert Sanders | 21 Nov 2011

Want fuel cells? Think outside the hydrogen tank

21 Nov 2011

Scientists develop brand new class of small molecules through innovative chemistry

21 Nov 2011

Mars Science Lab: Michigan scientists bring special expertise to new rover mission

18 Nov 2011

UN warns cassava virus, first identified by Bristol researchers, nearing an epidemic in Africa

18 Nov 2011

Are natural halogenated hyrdocarbons harmful to the ozone layer?

17 Nov 2011

Amplifier helps diamond spy on atoms

17 Nov 2011

The first hairy microbes: new fossils reveal oldest known ciliates

By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 16 Nov 2011

Newly found dwarf galaxies could help reveal the nature of dark matter

16 Nov 2011

Satellite technology enables rapid, accurate mapping of forest harvest in upper midwest

14 Nov 2011

E coli could convert sugar to biodiesel at 'an extraordinary rate,' say Stanford researchers

By By Louis Bergeron | 14 Nov 2011

Berkeley Lab research sparks record-breaking solar cell performance

By Lynn Yarris | 11 Nov 2011

Using a phone to fly a drone

By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 10 Nov 2011

"Breathalysers" in bars to keep social drinkers safe

09 Nov 2011

Scientists identify genes that may signal long life in naked mole-rats

08 Nov 2011

Astronomers look to artificial light to advance search for life out there

07 Nov 2011

Supernova solved

05 Nov 2011

Supernova solved

05 Nov 2011

A new series of studies identifies social norms that protect against obesity

05 Nov 2011

Astrobiologists discover “Sweet Spots” for the formation of complex organic molecules in the Galaxy

05 Nov 2011