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Motorola Mobility's Advanced Technology and Projects group announced a collaboration agreement with eight top U.S. research universities to streamline new joint research projects and the development of fundamental new technologies.

The center, which is slated to be dedicated Oct. 4, will house a 10,000-square-foot clean room and a suite of laboratories.

In the journal Nature , researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Media Lab report a new approach to generating holograms that could lead to color holographic-video displays that are much cheaper to manufacture than today's experimental, monochromatic displays.

New research out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that certain words seem to help participants appear more persuasive in meetings and increased the chances that their ideas would win acceptance from the group.

FANWOOD/SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ - Fanwood-Scotch Plains Girl Scouts gathered May 28 to honor girls who had achieved the organization's highest awards, the Gold and Silver Awards.

Computational photography is the use of clever light-gathering tricks and sophisticated algorithms to extract more information from the visual environment than traditional cameras can.

Developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , human bone is the inspiration behind the latest high-tech composite, which can be made in just a few hours using a 3D printer.

The International Monetary Fund is set to join an online university network and will run finance courses which will be available free to students around the world.

His father, Don, remembers visiting the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., with Tyler, now 37, when he was in elementary school.

Morehead State University had two undergraduate students and a professor from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences give poster presentations at the 222nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society - the leading professional society of astronomers in North America - held in Indianapolis.

With college tuition prices spiraling ever upward, it seems counter-intuitive that top schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University would also be racing to make their courses free online.

PHOTO: AFP Commuters are caught in a traffic jam on a road caused by construction works on an elevated freeway in Hanoi.

Ninety-eight percent of Caltech's bachelor's degrees were granted in STEM fields, making it one of the top STEM universities in the country.

A magnetic phenomenon newly discovered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers could lead to much faster, denser and more energy-efficient chips for memory and computation.

Every year, members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge spend months sifting through nominations to find some of the world's most accomplished scholars, artists, and leaders to join their institution.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers have devised a cheaper way to synthesize a key biofuel component, which could make its industrial production much more cost effective.

Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman, professor of international trade and economics at Princeton University, pauses during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013.

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US have produced a computer program that helps individuals practise interpersonal skills so they feel more comfortable in job interviews or going on a first date.

Researchers working to design new materials that are durable, lightweight and environmentally sustainable are increasingly looking to natural composites, such as bone, for inspiration: Bone is strong and tough because its two constituent materials, soft collagen protein and stiff hydroxyapatite mineral, are arranged in complex hierarchical patterns ... (more)