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Lab explosions and accidents
If you're working on serious projects there are often serious risks. A lot of these can be mitigated by preventative measures and safety ge...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 73 posts.
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Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper
MIT professor Scott Aaronson discusses new Google experiments that suggest the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena.
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Research links creativity and inability to filter irrelevant sensory information
Research links creativity with inability to filter irrelevant sensory information
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The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation
Start of operation and first plasma in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion research device at IPP Greifswald
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Chemical flavorings found in e-cigarettes linked to lung disease
A Harvard study links chemicals used in flavored electronic cigarettes to cases of severe respiratory disease.
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Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
After acquiring his entire elementary and secondary education from OpenCourseWare and <i>MITx,</i> Ahaan Rungta joined the MIT Class of 2019 at age 15.
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Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave
Over their lifetime, battery electric vehicles produce far less global warming pollution than their gasoline counterparts—and they’re getting cleaner.
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The Discovery of Statistical Regression
We explore the hotly contested history of the crowning jewel of statistics.
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Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
As data-driven research becomes more mainstream, the need for efficient and powerful scientific computing tools increases. To help meet this need, the Gordon an…
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MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water
MIT researchers have invented an efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
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Medication errors found in half of surgeries
The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period has found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in every second operation and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations, according to information gathered from 275 operations at…
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'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch
Researchers observed a mass of atoms cooled almost to absolute zero so that they could "tunnel" from place to place. But as long as the observation continued, no tunneling occurred.
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23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports
23andMe made some news today, with the launch of a new experience for customers that includes the first and only direct-to-consumer genetic service that meets U.S. FDA standards. We invested nearly two years of work conducting extensive user testing, working with regulators, scientists, physicians, and top product…
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Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone,' published October 13, 2015. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
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To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars
A new MIT study suggests that a human mission to Mars may lighten its launch load considerably by refueling on the moon.
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Links between coffee and health
Research at Harvard and elsewhere has repeatedly tied coffee consumption to health benefits.
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Elite scientists are more likely to have a hobby in the arts and crafts
Highly-accomplished scientists are more likely to have an artsy hobby than the average scientist. And Nobel prize winners are even more likely.
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Magnetic wormhole created for first time
Scientists in the Department of Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have designed and created in the laboratory the first experimental wormhole that can connect two regions of space magnetically. The device could have applications in medicine, opening up ways to make MRIs more comfortable for patients.
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Ants are as Effective as Pesticides
By: Becky Allen, British Ecological Society / Christina Troelsen, Aarhus University
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Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident
A total of up to 4000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 years ago, an international team of more than 100 scientists has concluded.
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A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
In a promising new approach to preventing or even curing obesity, researchers at MIT and Harvard Medical School have unveiled a new pathway that controls human metabolism by prompting adipocytes, or fat cells, to store fat or burn it away.