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Scientists have recently discovered an exoplanet that is approximately 1,500 light years away. The exoplanet, though, will soon evaporate and turn into dust because it is orbiting quite close to its parent star.
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The Times Higher Education magazine issued its annual rankings of universities worldwide on Thursday. It placed Stanford fourth ahead of UC Berkeley, fifth. Harvard, MIT and Cambridge retained the top three positions.
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Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the origin of the energetic particles that cause Earth's northern and southern lights, also known as aurora. The problem has puzzled scientists for decades.
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Anant Agarwal, the director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has announced that he has successfully mounted 100 microprocessors on one chip.
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MIT's Lincoln Laboratory researchers announced they developed a new radar technology that can "look" through concrete walls, a capability the scientists hope will soon help troops in urban combat, and be adapted for emergency responder use amid disasters.
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To get around the time consuming task of changing batteries on arrays of wireless electronic sensors, MIT researchers innovated a tiny device that harvests energy from low-frequency ambient vibrations, such as those traveling along bridges and pipelines.
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They look like tuna or trout, but they are not. In fact, these little fish-shaped creature is robofish developed by a team of MIT's scientists.
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A new study demonstrates the impact of a new drug compound on killing breast cancer stem cells, a major breakthrough that could have lasting positive implications for other cancers.
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Just in time for Mother’s Day...in a couple of years. Students at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have devised a team of gardening robots a la the preprogrammed robot vacuum that scoots around the house catching the trail of crumbs left by junior.
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MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative to make most of their courses available online for free appears to be a major success. More than 53 million individuals worldwide have visited its site.
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MIT researchers are trying to build tiny robots that can join together to create usable tools.
 Students at MIT celebrated the 50th anniversary of Spacewar!, the first videogame in history, by re-creating it on a computer the size of a business card.
 A team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution to the aggravating problem of how to get the last of the ketchup out of an almost-empty bottle.
Researchers from MIT have developed a special coating that will help get that last drop of ketchup out of the bottle - and other technology news stories.
The days of tirelessly smacking the ketchup bottle, only to have it explode on your plate, are finally over. Dave Smith, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, has spent the last two months at the Varanasi Research Group developing a slippery non-toxic coating that will end...
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An energy harvesting device designed by MIT researchers is about about the size of a U.S. quarter, yet capable of converting low-frequency ambient vibrations into electricity.
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