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Researchers Found Rat's Instant Replay Function May Lead to Cure Alzheimer's and Schizophrenia »
Posted by: WikiMap 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Rats may have a form of “instant replay” in their memory processes that helps them decide their actions, researchers at MIT have found. Their work ...
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Chocolate gets technical at MIT’s Laboratory for Chocolate Science »
Posted by: ZagatBuzz 7 months ago in News
Conversations about chocolate typically revolve around the obvious: flavor, intensity, milk vs. dark. But for the students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory ...
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Analysis knocks down theory on origin of cell structure - MIT News Office »
Posted by: altnrg 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Understanding how living cells originated and evolved into their present forms remains a fundamental research area in biology, one boosted in recent years by the ...
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Future shock: The PC of 2019 »
Posted by: jovial 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Think of a souped-up version of today's smartphone, with a monitor that unrolls into a larger screen and a biometric security system that lets ...
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On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study »
Posted by: Beau7890 6 months, 1 week ago in Humor
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Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of ...Read (312) | Share | Discuss (22) | Read Full Story at people.csail.mit.edu
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Scientists Engineer Cellular Circuits That Count Events »
Posted by: altnrg 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
MIT and Boston University engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are ...
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Video game you control with urine »
Posted by: jovial 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
P*ss-Screen is a urine-stream-controlled video game. Bad news for the swollen-prostate crowd.
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The P*ss-Screen is a pressure-sensitive inlay for urinals, to play a ...Read (237) | Share | Discuss (5) | Read Full Story at liveleak.com
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Electrospun fibers could be used for protective clothing, wearable power and more »
Posted by: altnrg 6 months ago in Science & Technology
In his office, MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like ...
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Learning Takes Place When You Get Things Right »
Posted by: Progressive 3 months, 1 week ago in Health & Fitness
THURSDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- It is often stated that people learn from their mistakes, but new research suggests people may figure out more from ...
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Think Progress » Conservatives Falsely Assert That Green Economy Legislation Would Impose $3,100 Tax On Families »
Posted by: cosmogenium 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Conservatives in Congress are resting their objections to effective green economy legislation on a bogus stat. Conservative leaders like Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen ...
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Seeing-Eye Fabric Developed By MIT Researchers »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 4 months ago in Science & Technology
Those dang MIT brainiacs. When they're not cracking people up with their erudite pranks and kooky creations, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
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Don't Count on Replacing Oil Just Yet! »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months ago in Political News
The transition away from oil and other fossil fuels would appear to be much further distant and far more technologically challenging than most conventional wisdom ...
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5 Typos That Broke the Bank »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Whether caused by rushed jobs, or just plain sloppiness, typos are an everyday reality. Most of the time, in this lickety-split Internet world of ours ...
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MIT Study Says Cellulosic Ethanol Could Have “Unintended” Environmental Consequences : Gas 2.0 »
Posted by: cosmogenium 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The aggressive, worldwide production of cellulosic ethanol could both "contribute substantially to future global-scale energy needs" and have "significant unintended environmental consequences" says a study ...
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The Army's Remote-Controlled Beetle »
Posted by: VengeanceNow 9 months ago in Science & Technology
A scientist sends a wireless signal from the laptop to the beetle to start and then stop flight. The beetle, seen in the upper part ...
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