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Modding T-Cells With Tiny Pills to Better Fight Cancer
Darrell Irvine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have found an interesting way to upgrade the naturally occurring cells that fight cancer, the T-cells. The T-cells belong...
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MIT Unveils Free Online Class, is This the Future of Higher Education?
Renowned as a premiere institute of higher learning for the sundry sciences, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a new program that will bring a free version of one of its classes...
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Supersonic Biplane Has All the Speed and None of the (Sonic) Boom
The trouble with supersonic travel is multifaceted: There’s the cost, the sound, the efficiency, and the sound — did we mention the sound? Sonic booms are, not surprisingly, incredibly loud, and what...
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Researchers Develop Nanotube Ethylene Sensor to Determine Fruit Ripeness
Getting ripened fruit to your local supermarket is actually a pretty complicated process. Many fruits ripen when ethylene binds to a particular receptor. That means that if the fruit is exposed to too...
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MIT Develops Jet-Injection Device to Replace Needles
Not many folks I know enjoy having to receive an injection. Mostly this has to do with the fact that they don’t like needles. Needles can leave bruises, aren’t the most accurate of tools and involve...
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Car Companion Created; Carefully Corrects Controls
Folks over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have crafted what they are calling an “intelligent co-pilot” for cars. Essentially, the car performs a series of calculations whilst someone is...
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International Space Station May Have Found Evidence of Dark Matter
Physicists and astronomers have hypothesized the existence of dark matter for decades, but evidence for the substance (if we can call it that?) has been scant at best — until now, that is. The Alpha...
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New NASA Planet Hunter TESS Searches Entire Sky, Puts Kepler To Shame
We’ve already spotted more than 800 exoplanets beyond our solar system, and more than a hundred of these were identified by NASA’s Kepler mission in the four years since its launch — and that’s just...
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MIT Scientists Create False Memories in Mice, Creep Out All Other Species -...
There’s something deeply unnerving about the idea that our memories could be falsified or erased. Our fear of the idea has made it a popular theme in science fiction. But new techniques that let...
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NASA Gives MIT a “Valkyrie” Robot That Looks Suspiciously Like Iron Man -...
Not content to let robots rule merely the Earth, NASA will help them reach for the stars above, as well. To that end, they’ve given the “Valkyrie” robot to MIT, so they can play around with it and...
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