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Ten graduate students from MIT recently spent three weeks in Durban, South Africa, working on a project to develop an online tool that could help municipal governments around the world adapt to a changing climate.
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As part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), MIT and Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, have announced a new energy research collaboration aimed at exploring new materials and concepts for efficient energy-conversion and energy-storage systems.
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A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa.
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Climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than previously thought, according to a new study by the global conservation organization WWF.
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MIT and Fraunhofer, a German research organization, have signed an agreement to establish a research center in Massachusetts focused on significantly reducing the cost of solar energy over the next five years.
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The MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the Boston Society of Architects are staging the first of a pair of symposia featuring leading urbanists from around the world.
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Google's new Personal Health Records (PHRs) prototype provides a model that gives consumers greater control over the flow of their personal health information, than is currently provided under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules.
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Carrier Corp. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) to provide its energy-efficient, non-ozone depleting water-cooled chillers to qualified C40 cities and private building owners in the C40.
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced today three grant award recipients for the 2008 Mineral Resources External Research Program, which encourages minerals research.
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NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader of programmable graphics processor technologies, and Planar Systems, makers of specialty displays, are cooperating closely to produce display systems that will enable doctors to more effectively screen for breast cancer.
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