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BlackBerry users can now text or speak their way to increased productivity with the reQall memory aid
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In response to the chronic cyber threat of hackers, MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers are developing a software tool to identify the most vulnerable points in a computer network.
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Hundreds of insect species spend much of their time underwater, where food may be more plentiful. MIT mathematicians have now figured out exactly how those insects breathe underwater.
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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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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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MIT staff members have been working with middle-school students in Gloucester this summer to raise their interest in science and engineering as part of a program that could be implemented in communities across the country.
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The 3,000 plus islanders of Patmos and its thousands of visitors will soon have the convenience of island-wide free mobile networking delivered by joint venture Uni Nortel using a Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] wireless mesh solution.
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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 researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger areas than have been possible with other methods.
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The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and SkyHook International Inc. today announced a teaming agreement to develop the JHL-40 (Jess Heavy Lifter), a new commercial heavy-lift rotorcraft designed to address the limitations and expense of transporting equipment and materials in remote regions.
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A dietary cocktail that includes a type of omega-3 fatty acid can improve memory and learning in gerbils, according to the latest study from MIT researchers that points to a possible beverage-based treatment for Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.
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A new analysis of the setting for last month’s devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity, and that similar events in that area occur only once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years, on average.
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As part of a long-standing effort to bring issues of energy, science, technology, education and innovation into the national spotlight, MIT is seeking to engage both of this year’s major-party presidential campaigns in an open dialogue.
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An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team.
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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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Chronic inflammation of the intestine or stomach can damage DNA, increasing the risk of cancer, MIT scientists have confirmed.
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When Alice MacDonald arrived at MIT four years ago, the biological engineering major did not exist. But this Friday, MacDonald and 22 other adventuresome MIT students will become the Institute's first graduates from the new biological engineering program.
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The space shuttle's 45-foot robotic arm may look simple and automatic as it gracefully lifts a multi-ton satellite from the cargo bay and lets it drift off into space.
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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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Prompt treatment of a microbe that causes stomach ulcers and other ailments can reverse damage to the lining of the stomach and ultimately prevent one of the most lethal forms of cancer from developing there, MIT researchers have concluded.
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