Researchers discover that an exoplanet is Earth-like in mass and size
Posted On Monday, November 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: identified an exoplanet, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, mallest exoplanets, Space Research
In August, MIT researchers identified an exoplanet with an extremely brief orbital period: The team found that Kepler 78b, a small, intensely hot planet 400 light-years from Earth, circles its star in just 8.5 hours — lightning-quick, compared with our own planet’s leisurely 365-day orbit. From starlight data gathered by ...
Automatic Speaker Tracking in Audio Recordings
Posted On Sunday, October 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: central topic, CSAIL, Najim Dehak, speaker diarization, spoken-language-systems research
A central topic in spoken-language-systems research is what’s called speaker diarization, or computationally determining how many speakers feature in a recording and which of them speaks when. Speaker diarization would be an essential function of any program that automatically annotated audio or video recordings.
To date, the best diarization systems have ...
Innovation in Renewable-Energy Technologies is Booming
Posted On Saturday, October 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Jessika Trancik, new energy technologies, renewable-energy technologies, Santa Fe Institute
The number of patents issued for renewable-energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, according to new research from MIT and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). The study shows that investments in research and development, as well as in the growth of markets for these products, have helped to ...
New Position Aims to Strengthen MIT’s Sustainability
Posted On Saturday, October 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Higher education, John DiFava, Julie Newman, Treasurer Israel Ruiz, University of New Hampshire, Yale University
Julie Newman, MIT’s first director of sustainability, brings to her new post a portfolio as one of the nation’s most experienced leaders on sustainability in higher education.
Newman, who assumed her role in mid-August, came to MIT from a similar position at Yale University, where she led a sustainability initiative for ...
Nanoparticle Vaccine Offers Better Protection
Posted On Friday, September 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: bacteria, Cryoelectron microscope, Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts General Hospital, mucosal surfaces, viruses
Many viruses and bacteria infect humans through mucosal surfaces, such as those in the lungs, gastrointestinal tract and reproductive tract. To help fight these pathogens, scientists are working on vaccines that can establish a front line of defense at mucosal surfaces.
Vaccines can be delivered to the lungs via an aerosol ...
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...
Ruben Juanes Unravels The Mysteries of Underground Flows
Posted On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: ARCO Associate, Energy Studies at MIT, Ruben Juanes, U.S. energy landscape, University of La Coruna
As a child in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain, Ruben Juanes was already fascinated by science, and that interest was fostered by a science teacher who taught him in the fifth and sixth grades.
One thing that really helped to bring the material to life, says Juanes — now the ...
Detecting Program-Tampering in The Cloud
Posted On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: C programming language, circuit diagrams, International Cryptology, Tel Aviv University, zero-knowledge proofs
A new version of ‘zero-knowledge proofs’ allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.
For small and midsize organizations, the outsourcing of demanding computational tasks to the cloud — huge banks of computers accessible over the Internet — can be much more ...
New Method for Turning Genes on and off could enable more complex synthetic biology circuits
Posted On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: ACS Synthetic Biology, Christine Daniloff/iMol, complex synthetic biology circuits, control genes, DNA, MIT researchers
MIT researchers have shown that they can turn genes on or off inside yeast and human cells by controlling when DNA is copied into messenger RNA — an advance that could allow scientists to better understand the function of those genes.
The technique could also make it easier to engineer cells ...
Dental Scanner Allows Researcher to Sink His Teeth into Entrepreneurship
Posted On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: arvard Business School, graduate students, Harvard University, János Rohály, Lava Chairside Oral Scanner, professor Douglas Hart
Traditionally, dentists have made dental impressions by having patients bite down on a moldable silicone material. Such impressions, however, can be messy and uncomfortable, and sometimes inaccurate.
In the early 2000s, a group of researchers from MIT and business students from Harvard University began working to commercialize a novel handheld scanner ...
New Rechargeable Flow Battery Enables Cheaper, Large-Scale Energy Storage
Posted On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Hydrobromic acid, large-scale energy storage, Martin Bazant, membraneless systems
MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store electricity. The device, they say, may one day enable cheaper, large-scale energy storage.
The palm-sized prototype generates three times as much power per square centimeter as other membraneless systems — a power ...
UMass Amherst Wins Award from Food Management Magazine for Library Café
Posted On Monday, August 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Auxiliary Enterprises, Du Bois Library, Food Management’s, Ken Toong, library administration, University of Massachusetts
AMHERST, Mass. – Procrastination Station, the café in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has won Food Management magazine’s Best Concept Award for Best Convenience Retailing Concept. The café is a joint project between the library administration and Auxiliary Enterprises.
The newly renovated Procrastination Station opened ...
Improved Nuclear Fuel-rod Cladding Might Prevent Future Fukushimas
Posted On Monday, July 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hydrogen buildup, Japan’s earthquake, loss-of-coolant nuclear accident, Tom McKrell, tsunami, Youho Lee
In the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 quake; its emergency generators then failed because they were inundated by the tsunami. But the greatest damage to the complex, and the greatest release of ...
Newly Discovered Flux in the Earth May Solve Missing-Mantle Mystery
Posted On Sunday, July 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Countless theories, dust circled, Dusty disks, Earth arose, Earth’s origins, geologic observations, maelstrom of gas, violent origins
It’s widely thought that the Earth arose from violent origins: Some 4.5 billion years ago, a maelstrom of gas and dust circled in a massive disc around the sun, gathering in rocky clumps to form asteroids. These asteroids, gaining momentum, whirled around a fledgling solar system, repeatedly smashing into each ...
Writing Programs Using Ordinary Language
Posted On Sunday, July 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT’s Computer Science, ordinary language, Writing programs
In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it’s possible to write computer programs using ordinary language rather than special-purpose programming languages.
The work may be of some help to programmers, and it could let nonprogrammers ...
