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Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

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2 hrs ago | Design News

McCain, Obama Representatives Talk Clean Carbon, Alternative Fuels in Energy Debate

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 ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Energy, John McCain, Barack Obama

12 hrs ago | Dayton Business Journal

Base home to - unsung' institute

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 ...

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Related Topix: US Military, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, US Air Force

Mon Oct 06, 2008

Planenews Aviation News Portal

NASA Awards Future Vehicle Aircraft Research Contracts.

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 ...

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Stacks.iop.org

The number density of a charged relic

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

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, UC Santa Barbara, World News, Germany, France,

Sun Oct 05, 2008

Earth Times

Galenea and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Extend & Expand Schizophrenia Research Collaboration

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and TOKYO, Oct. 6 MA-Galenea-Otsuka-exp CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and TOKYO , Oct.

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, Chemistry

CiteULike

Evaluation of an inverse molecular design algorithm in a model binding site

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

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Cambridge, MA

Sat Oct 04, 2008

The Item

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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.

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Related Topix: Student Society, Lambda Chi Alpha, Fraternities, Boston, MA

Fri Oct 03, 2008

RedOrbit

Scientists Working on Space Elevator

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.

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Nashua Telegraph

Ex-tax collector recollects

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 ...

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Related Topix: Townsend, MA

Thu Oct 02, 2008

Poor Mojo Newswire

The Ignobel Awards 2008

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.

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Related Topix: Beverages, CocaCola, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, Harvard University, Pop/Rock, The Fugs, Duke University

New Scientist

Robotic yellow submarine is 'Mars Rover of the sea'

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.

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Related Topix: Robots, Science / Technology, Oceanography, Science, CPU, Archaeology, Anthropology

Slam Sports

Massachusetts Institute of Technology endowment gets 3.2 per cent return

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.

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Related Topix: Winter Sports, Curling

Wed Oct 01, 2008

Newkerala.com

Students announce AIDS breakthrough

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 ...

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Related Topix: Drexel University, HIV/AIDS, Health, Cambridge, MA

Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

MIT researchers harness tree power to fight wildfires

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 ...

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Related Topix: Gadgets

Tue Sep 30, 2008

WAFF.com

Team Sniffs Out Process That Could Make 'Artificial Nose'

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.

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Mon Sep 29, 2008

The Straits Times

'Artificial noses' on the way

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.

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DesignLines

Underwater helicopter surfaces

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

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Related Topix: Woods Hole, MA, Science / Technology, Robots

The Hill Times

Nanos looks at two front-runners, followed by undecided

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

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Sun Sep 28, 2008

Star Tribune

Bailout deal may slow economic unraveling, but more steps likely

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.

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Related Topix: Housing, Stanford University, New York University, Home, Mortgage

Charleston Daily Mail

DuPont names Kullman as chief executive officer

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

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Related Topix: Dover Metro, Marketing, Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Dupont E I Nemours , Electronic, Dupont, Chemicals, Chemistry, Science

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