Items tagged with MIT

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New Virus-Built Battery could Power Cars Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - 16:06:42 - Anuradha Menon For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a... read more

Blocked Enzyme Reverses Schizophrenia Saturday, March 21st, 2009 - 10:01:25 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that inhibiting a key brain enzyme in mice reversed schizophrenia-like... read more

Flying Car Takes Off Friday, March 20th, 2009 - 14:22:32 - Anuradha Menon A prototype of what is being touted as the world's first practical flying car took to the air for the first time this month, a milestone in a project... read more

A Human Failure, Seen at Face Value Saturday, March 14th, 2009 - 10:05:04 - Anuradha Menon Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success... read more

Attack of the Killer Robo-Gardeners Thursday, March 12th, 2009 - 16:16:08 - Anuradha Menon I'm allergic to tomatoes. Also black olives and mushrooms. That means I'm about the worst guy in the world to order a pizza with. But tomatoes are in... read more

Recharge Batteries in Seconds Thursday, March 12th, 2009 - 12:09:54 - Anuradha Menon MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance... read more

Making Solar Cheaper than Coal Sunday, March 8th, 2009 - 20:37:35 - Iddo Genuth Starting in the 1970s, the Masssachussetts Institute of Technology mechanical-engineering professor had made significant contributions to solar... read more

Nanostitching May Lead to Stronger Airplanes Saturday, March 7th, 2009 - 12:08:40 - Anuradha Menon MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane... read more

Promise for Engineering Tissues and Organs Thursday, March 5th, 2009 - 10:12:47 - Anuradha Menon As a high school sophomore, Asad Moten read a news story about engineering new organs for patients waiting for a transplant, and decided to start his... read more

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