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A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth.
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Diets and beauty products claiming to have anti-oxidant properties are unlikely to prevent ageing, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Students at MIT working on designing a system that creates power using solar heat and methane gas received one of 49 national EPA grants which are helping programs that protect the environment and are economically profitable.
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The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), today announced ambitious new targets to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon emissions within its system-wide operations, while promoting sustainable agricultural practices and helping to conserve the world's most important freshwater basins.
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Three-Pronged Program to Focus on Data Analysis, Storage, and Scalable Clusters
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Research presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting describes an easier and more accurate method to predict the degradation and remaining useful life of mechanical and electronic equipment, while significantly improving maintenance operations and spare parts logistics.
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Discovering what happens beneath an active volcano is a job that's often too hot for researchers to handle, but a University of Arkansas scientist and his colleagues have created a new and better way to "look" at what's going on in the molten magma that lies beneath a volcano's surface.
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MIT's cogeneration plant, which provides most of the electricity, heat and air conditioning for the campus, could get even more efficient if a team of students' project to harness surplus heat works as expected.
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The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have traveled beyond the edges of the bubble in space where the sun's constant outward wind of particles and radiation slams into the interstellar medium that pervades our galaxy.
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MIT engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader market, particularly in portable electronics.
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The American Gastroenterological Association's Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition will recognize on Sunday, May 18 two faculty members in the University of Michigan Health System's Division of Gastroenterology as the 2008 Outstanding AGA Women in Science
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Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change.
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Rats use their whiskers in a way that is closely related to the human sense of touch: Just as humans move their fingertips across a surface to perceive shapes and textures, rats twitch their whiskers to achieve the same goal.
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IT's Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT-CTL) and LOGyCA, a Colombia-based logistics company, have signed an agreement worth $19 million creating the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation .
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The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) today announced the official opening of The New Mexico Genome Sequencing Center, a-state-of-the-art center featuring two Illumina Genome Analyzer Systems.
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