MIT Neuroscientists Study Brain Activity to Learn About Empathy
MIT neuroscientists are studying the patterns of brain activity that correlate with empathy. They hope to use their findings to determine how well people respond…
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MIT Physicists Study Superfluid to Better Understand Neutron Stars
MIT physicists are studying phase transition to gain a better understanding of superconductivity of electrons in metals. By examining how a gas turns into a…
MIT Researchers Study Theoretical Speed Limit of Flight
MIT researchers state that all flying objects must observe a theoretical speed limit in order to avoid a crash. Flying faster than this speed will…
Researchers Discover Dark Galaxy 10 Billion Light Years From Earth
Using the 10-meter Keck-11 Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, a team of researchers discovered a dark dwarf galaxy 9.8 billion light-years from Earth. This is…
New Algorithm Faster Than Fourier Transform
MIT researchers discovered a new algorithm that is faster than the Fourier transform. This new algorithm is based on two key ideas: divide a signal…
Researchers at MIT and Yale Predict Climate Change to be a Major Expense in Tropical Storm Damage
Climate change could cost North America, East Asia, and the Caribbean billions more than it already does. New information from researchers at MIT and Yale…
MR Spectroscopy Helps Measure Brain Tumor Mutation
A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Agios Pharmaceuticals are using MR spectroscopy to measure whether brain tumors have a…
Nature’s Sunflower May Help Increase Solar Efficiency in CSP Plants
Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, such as PS 10 and PS20 located in Spain, help supply clean electricity to thousands of homes; but researchers at…
Nanoscale Biological Coating Instantly Stops Bleeding
In a development that could end up saving the lives of soldiers traumatically injured on the battlefield, engineers from MIT have developed a spray coating…
MIT Neuroscientists Research Brain Activity Related to Face Recognition
How does the human brain recognize faces and distinguish between genuine faces and objects that resemble faces? A new study by Professor Pawan Sinha at…
Neuroscientists Predict Which Parts of the Fusiform Gyrus are Face-Selective
Neuroscientists know a lot about the functionality of our brain cells and recently they furthered that knowledge with a new discovery. By tracing the interaction…
New Data Finds North American Continent Extremely Stable
Researchers at MIT have published their work on the reconstruction of the Wyoming Province. Despite billions of years of turmoil beneath the Earth’s crust, the…
