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Energy representatives for presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama met at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last night to debate their candidates' policies on energy supply, security and ...

Ask most Dayton-area residents what they know about the Air Force Institute of Technology, known as AFIT, and answers often range from "Huh?" to "Isn't that some kind of school at the base?" In fact, the ...

WASHINGTON: NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12.4 million to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service ...

We investigate scenarios in which a charged, long-lived scalar particle decouples from the primordial plasma in the early Universe.

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Abstract Computational molecular design is a useful tool in modern drug discovery.

The father of a unique measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at MIT, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented the Smoot 50 years ago.

Scientists in Japan and the United States say creating a so-called space elevator that can be used to visit space is a real possibility.

Twenty-one years ago, when Barbara Townsend succeeded Leonard White as town tax collector, she did her calculations by hand and forwarded stacks of IBM computer cards, fastened with elastic bands, to a ...

Tests of whether sodas such as Coke and Pepsi could be used as spermicides were among the many offbeat ideas celebrated at the 2008 Ig Nobel awards on Thursday.

This cheerful yellow robot sub can hover underwater, unlike some oceanography subs, making new kinds of mission possible, for example, holding position and manipulating underwater objects.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said its endowment earned a 3.2 per cent return and grew to about US$10.1 billion during the last fiscal year.

By Dipankar De Sarkar, London, Oct 1 : In what is being described as a breakthrough in AIDS prevention, a group of engineering students and a medical doctor is reported to have designed a simple 'shield' to ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are now working on a system that uses energy from the trees themselves to power a network of temperature and humidity sensors that act as remote weather ...

Smell receptors can now be mass produced in the laboratory, an advance that the biological engineers who developed the process say could lead to the creation of "artificial noses," a new report says.

MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology scientists said on Monday they have moved closer to creating 'artificial noses', after finding a way to mass-produce smell receptors in a laboratory.

Undersea robots have until now operated like fixed-wing aircraft, requiring motion to maneuver.

Seat projections more accurately measure what is happening during election campaigns, says a political polling expert.

The government's planned financial bailout is a significant if costly step intended to avert economic calamity, but it may not be the last one, according to some economists and finance experts.

Having shifted under chief executive Charles Holliday Jr. from a traditional chemicals business to a science and biotechnology company, DuPont Co.