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Wireless power could popularise electronic vehicles
02 Feb 2012
Stanford researchers have designed a new technology that could lead to wireless charging of electric vehicles while they cruise down the highway.
Fuel from market waste makes methane car fuel
01 Feb 2012
Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries — to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. In future it will be put to better use: Researchers from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have developed a new facility that ferments this waste to make methane, which can be used to power vehicles.
Researchers shed light on the mystery surrounding energy-rich molecules in interstellar clouds
01 Feb 2012
Experiments provide some answers on fighting fires in space
By By Ioana Patringenaru | 01 Feb 2012
Laser hints at how universe got its magnetism
30 Jan 2012
What drove the lunar dynamo?
By By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 28 Jan 2012
Research supports theory that the moon’s molten core is likely to have been sustained by an alternative power source
New fluorescent dyes highlight neuronal activity
By By Scott LaFee | 27 Jan 2012
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
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