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Pills of the Future: Nanoparticles
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Pills of the Future: Nanoparticles

Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a drug-carrying nanoparticle that can be delivered orally and absorbed through the digestive...

Big Plans For Small Spacecraft
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Big Plans For Small Spacecraft

It's hard to miss the rocket engine in Paulo Lozano's MIT office.

Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Revives Its Old Ambitions

The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...

Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought
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Encryption Is Less Secure Than We Thought

Since 1948, when Claude Shannon's seminal paper on information theory first appeared, most information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes have depended on a common...

The Brains Behind Research on the Brain
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The Brains Behind Research on the Brain

While studying physics and electrical engineering as an MIT undergraduate in the late 1990s, Mehmet Fatih Yanik managed to avoid taking any biology classes until...

Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain
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Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in the Brain

The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...

Chiral Ferromagnet Demo Hints at High-Performance Storage Systems
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Chiral Ferromagnet Demo Hints at High-Performance Storage Systems

MIT researchers have demonstrated efficient control of magnetism in chiral ferromagnets, which could lead to better data storage systems.

Can You Feel Me Now?
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Can You Feel Me Now?

An array that tracks motor vibrations through the skin may help engineers design wearable tactile displays that use the skin as a medium of communication.

Tiny Compound Semiconductor Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance
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Tiny Compound Semiconductor Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance

MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.

'invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics
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'invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics

An MIT team applies technology developed for visual "cloaking" to enable particles to "hide" from passing electrons, which could lead to more efficient thermoelectric...

What Number Is Halfway Between 1 and 9? Is It 5 — or 3?
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What Number Is Halfway Between 1 and 9? Is It 5 — or 3?

A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.

Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle
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Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle

Scientists have genetically engineered muscle cells that flex in response to light, which could be used to build highly articulated robots or to test drugs for...

Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls
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Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls

Computer scientists have finally answered the question of whether whether shared entanglement between the provers in multiprover interactive proof systems weaken...

Daniela Rus Named Csail Director
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Daniela Rus Named Csail Director

Daniela Rus, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...

The Robot Revolution Is Just Beginning
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The Robot Revolution Is Just Beginning

When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...

Taking An Innovative Approach to Battery Design
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Taking An Innovative Approach to Battery Design

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway's radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.

Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller
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Milestone For MIT Press's Bestseller

On Thursday, Aug. 4, the MIT Press held a party in MIT's Stata Center to celebrate the sale of the 500,000th copy of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms....
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