Algebra Boosts Wireless Network Bandwidth Tenfold
Algebraists are promising to improve wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude, not by adding base stations, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging…
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Graphene Membranes May be Used to Filter Water & Biological Samples
Finding that large membranes engineered from single sheets of grapheme allow small molecules to pass through, researchers are now looking to use the graphene membranes…
Study Shows Broca’s Area Has Multiple Roles
In a new study, MIT neuroscientists found that Broca’s area actually consists of two distinct subunits, one focuses selectively on language processing, while the other…
MIT Team Uses Carbon Nanotubes to Draw Gas Sensors
A team of MIT chemists revealed how they developed a method for drawing gas sensors on paper using a tailor-made, super-conductive carbon nanotube pencil. The…
Complex Synthetic Biology Circuit Can Detect Four Different Molecules
Synthetic biologists design circuits using genes as interchangeable parts, allowing them to perform new functions, such as sensing environmental conditions. However, the overall complexity that…
ALS Reveals Fundamental Reactions behind Advanced Battery Technology
Scientists used the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California to test a novel solid-state version of a lithium-air battery, studying…
Scientists Measure the Radius of a Black Hole at the Center of M87
Using the Event Horizon Telescope, an international team of scientists has for the first time measured the radius of a black hole at the center…
Study Suggests that Astrocytes are Critically Important for Processing Sensory Information
A newly published study from a team of neuroscientists at MIT is latest in a growing body of evidence suggesting that astrocytes are critically important…
Study Examines How Global Warming Will Affect Tropical Rainfall
A new study from scientists at MIT uses model simulations and observations to estimate the how global warming will affect extreme precipitation, finding that with…
Ultrasound Waves Improve Skin’s Permeability to Drugs
A team of engineers from MIT found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs by applying two separate beams of ultrasound waves,…
Searching for Better Methods of Making Biofuels from Cellulosic Biomass
In an effort to replicate the cellulose-destroying capabilities of anaerobic fungi in yeast and create a potentially cost-effective single-organism process for manufacturing cellulosic biofuels, MIT…
Water-Repellent Ferrous Nanoparticles May Help Clean Oil Spills
By using water-repellent ferrous nanoparticles that mix with oil and can be separated from water by using magnets, MIT researchers have developed a new technique…
Brain Scans Help Predict Whether Patients Will Respond to Therapy
Newly published research details how a team of scientists discovered that the effectiveness of social anxiety therapy could be predicted by measuring patients’ brain activity…
Algorithm Analyzes Information from Medical Images to Identify Disease
Scientists at MIT have developed an algorithm that can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and their connections with…
Spin-Velocity Correlation in an Ultracold, Dilute Gas of Atoms
A newly published study details how MIT scientists create and detect spin-orbit coupling in an atomic Fermi gas, a highly controllable form of quantum degenerate…
Light Activated Muscle Cells May Advance Biorobotics
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT have genetically engineered muscle cells to flex in response to light, which may one day enable highly…
High Pyruvate Kinase Activity May Suppress Tumor Growth
A newly published study from MIT scientists suggests that high pyruvate kinase activity may suppress tumor growth, finding that pharmaceutical compounds that force PKM2 to…
3-D Scaffold That Could Monitor Electrical Activity of Engineered Tissue
Designed by a team of scientists from Harvard, MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital, electronic sensors made of silicon nanowires could be used to monitor electrical…
