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Noninvasive technique reduces beta amyloid plaques in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
Machine-learning system spontaneously reproduces aspects of human neurology.
Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research.
Mongolian anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger studies a society in transition.
CSAIL system lets users design and fabricate drones with a wide range of shapes and structures.
MIT leadership answers questions about the mission and features of the new accelerator.
Writing for The Atlantic, Ed Yong spotlights a study by MIT researchers that identifies a potential new treatment for Alzheimer’s – using pulses of light to stimulate brain waves. Yong writes that the study “heralds a completely new approach to dealing with Alzheimer’s—changing neural activity, rather than delivering drugs or chemicals.”
MIT researchers have found that water can stay frozen, even when heated to boiling temperatures, when molecules are placed inside tiny carbon nanotubes, reports Sam Lemonick for Forbes. The researchers hope to use the “ice-filled tubes as wires to move protons,” a key step in creating hydrogen fuel cells.
Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Davis writes about a study by Prof. David Autor that shows U.S. industries facing increased competition from China reduced R&D spending. Autor notes the findings show the importance of federal support for R&D.
Head of world’s largest publicly traded corporation will address the Class of 2017 on June 9.
Institute to offer its first “blended-only” master’s program, in data, economics, and development policy.
Alix de Monts, Lisa Ho, Anita Liu, and Melody Liu will study for one year at Tsinghua University in China.
New location hopes to further engage the MIT and Cambridge communities.
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