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Topography determined bacterial consumption of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
12 Jan 2012
Scientists document how geology, biology worked together after oil disaster
A new twist to surface tension
11 Jan 2012
How does our brain know what is a face and what’s not?
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 09 Jan 2012
The researchers found that activation in the left side of the fusiform gyrus preceded that of the right side by a couple of seconds, supporting the hypothesis that the left side does its job first and then passes information on to the right side, which is involved in making the categorical declaration of whether an image is a face or not
To speed people up, human leg muscle slows down
09 Jan 2012
The case of the missing gas mileage
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office | 06 Jan 2012
Automakers have made great strides in fuel efficiency in recent decades — but the mileage numbers of individual vehicles have barely increased. An MIT economist explains the conundrum
3-D cameras for cellphones
By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 06 Jan 2012
Clever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera so simple and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into handheld devices at very little extra cost
New technology removes air pollutants, may reduce energy use in animal agriculture facilities
05 Jan 2012
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
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