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Who's Using Your Data?
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Who's Using Your Data?

Researchers at MIT are developing a protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability" (HTTPA) which will automatically monitor the transmission of private data and...

Seeing How a Lithium-Ion Battery Works
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Seeing How a Lithium-Ion Battery Works

Researchers at MIT say their new findings explain the unexpectedly high power and long cycle life of a type of electrode widely used in lithium-ion batteries.

Surprising Nanotubes: Some Slippery, Some Sticky
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Surprising Nanotubes: Some Slippery, Some Sticky

New research discovers unexpected variations in the behavior of nanotubes made of carbon and those made of boron nitride.

Bake Your Own Robot
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Bake Your Own Robot

Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...

Spruce ­p Your Selfie
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Spruce ­p Your Selfie

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that could allow users to transfer the distinctive styles of acclaimed photographers to cellphone photos.

Growing Graphene
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Growing Graphene

Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have come up with a new way of producing sheets of graphene, in a process that lends itself to scalable manufacturing...

Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State
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Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State

A team of researchers has produced a detailed visualization of how sodium manganese dioxide behaves during charging and discharging, elucidating an exotic molecular...

A New Kind of Media Theory
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A New Kind of Media Theory

MIT's Fox Harrell is looking to give computer games, social media, and digital media the same opportunities for social reflection present in literature, film, and...

The Science of Networking
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The Science of Networking

MIT senior Esther Jang uses science, engineering, and teaching to help others and challenge herself. She and a classmate brought Internet connectivity and online...

Natural-Language Processing Techniques Aid Activity-Recognition Algorithm
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Natural-Language Processing Techniques Aid Activity-Recognition Algorithm

Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions.

Student-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
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Student-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes

Mechanical engineering students in an MIT robotics class produced a wide array of robots to compete on a simulated ski slope in a prestigious annual competition...

Smart Components That Assemble Themselves
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Smart Components That Assemble Themselves

Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.

Tiny Anti-Counterfeiting Particles Could Help Verify Goods
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Tiny Anti-Counterfeiting Particles Could Help Verify Goods

Researcbers hope smartphone-readable microparticles could crack down on counterfeit currency, electronics, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, and other products.

New 'switch' Could Power Quantum Computing
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New 'switch' Could Power Quantum Computing

A light lattice that traps atoms may help scientists build networks of quantum information transmitters.

The Complexonaut
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The Complexonaut

Scott Aaronson travels the far reaches of computational complexity, shaping conventional and quantum computing.  

The Complexonaut
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The Complexonaut

When he was in elementary school, Scott Aaronson, like many mathematically precocious kids of his generation, dreamed of making his own video games.

Robot 101: Learning to Work With Humans
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Robot 101: Learning to Work With Humans

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Interactive Robotics Group director Julie Shah is focused on teaching inherently safe robots to work in teams with people,...

Democratizing Data Visualization
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Democratizing Data Visualization

An in-depth study on the use of Exhibit, a set of Web development tools that lets novice users quickly put together interactive data visualizations, will be presented...

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

MIT researchers have developed a self-contained autonomous soft robotic "fish" that can convulse its body to change direction in just a fraction of a second, almost...

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...
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