Technology - general
How to clean up oil spills
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 12 Sep 2012
Researchers uncover the full scale and weaknesses of the monitoring of illegal file sharers
07 Sep 2012
Organic farms not necessarily better for environment
04 Sep 2012
Organic cereals generate higher greenhouse gas emissions per unit of product than their conventionally farmed counterparts, new analysis led by Oxford University scientists has shown
“Marsquake” technology being developed for NASA to study Martian seismic activity
By By Colin Smith | 04 Sep 2012
Making Web applications more efficient
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 01 Sep 2012
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast
Custom-controlled climate on airplanes
30 Aug 2012
Mars can be made habitable: top scientist
29 Aug 2012
New technology increases concentrated solar conversion efficiency by 60 %
27 Aug 2012
A promising technology uses superconducting magnets to increase the efficiency of conversion from sunlight to electricity by stripping electrons from high-energy plasma jets
Gibbons use soprano techniques in forests: Study
24 Aug 2012
US to test road safety vehicle-to-vehicle communication
23 Aug 2012
Wireless devices fitted on vehicles would signal each other, warning their drivers of potential dangers such as cars speeding through red lights
Teaching a microbe to make fuel
By By David L Chandler, MIT News Office | 22 Aug 2012
Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.
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