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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the risks of leakage of potential underground carbon-dioxide reservoirs.

For the first time in seven decades, Treasury bills are paying no interest while stocks continue to appreciate -- a divergence in U.S. financial markets that might be perilous if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke didna t know all about 1938.

Students from Harvard University won five Rhodes Scholarships and those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were awarded three, leading the 32 U.S. recipients of the award for 2010.

One of the great promises of nanotechnologies lies in its ability to create drug-containing nanoparticles decorated with targeting molecules that recognize and bind to cancer cells, providing drug delivery only at the site of the targeted cells.

A laptop generating a little too much waste heat That heat emanating from your computer as you sit reading this article amounts to nothing more than wasted energy.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they may have discovered what caused arsenic to appear in drinking water in Bangladesh.

Cambridge, MA. is ranked the top city for commuters to live in. In a new report published this week by US News and World Report and featured on Yahoo Real Estate , it was said: Cambridge, Mass.

THE signs of the digital photography revolution are hard to miss, from cameras embedded in our cellphones to gigabytes of images stored on hard drives.

In Mongolia, he shows former nomads how working together benefits everyone. By Lee Lawrence from the November 16, 2009 edition Ulan bator, Mongolia - Every week, Batdorj Gongor heads to the northern section of Ulan Bator, where apartment buildings and paved streets give way to row after row of dirt lanes and fenced-in plots.

Among other things, Schroeder attempts to reconcile the Biblical account of a young earth that by best reckoning was created about 6,000 years ago with the scientific model of a world that is billions of years old.

Deborah Nightingale, left, and Dr. Gigi Hirsch, both of M.I.T., see a value in the streamlining of drug research.

Close NOVEMBER 13, 2009 By JUSTIN LAHART The American tradition of tinkering -- the spark for inventions from the telephone to the Apple computer -- is making a comeback, boosted by renewed interest in hands-on work amid the economic crisis and falling prices of high-tech tools and materials.

The American Physical Society has "overwhelmingly rejected" a proposal from a group of 160 physicists to alter its official position on climate change.

By Julie Steenhuysen Chicago - United States researchers have found a chemical that can kill breast cancer stem cells - a kind of master cancer cell that resists conventional treatment and may explain why many cancers grow back.

Phillip A. Sharp, a world leader of research in molecular biology and biochemistry and an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Herbert Tabor/ Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship.

Total, a French oil company, recently agreed to give the Massachusetts Institute of Technology $4 million for a 5-year research project to develop stationary batteries that can more efficiently store solar energy.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is considering expanding its student body by more than 7 percent, or more than 300 students, if it is able to create additional student housing, the dean of admission, Stuart Schmill, said Thursday.

There are college towns. And then there is Cambridge. Off Massachusetts Avenue, just a short walk from Boston's famed Newbury Street shopping district, sits the massive brain power of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ruckus over call for reform at national science agency raises questions about attracting expatriate talent.

One of the great problems of the chip industry is that no two chips are alike. Even when chip makers are fabricating the exact same chip product, like an Intel microprocessor, there are always minute and virtually unnoticeable differences from one chip to the next.