Possible role for Huntington’s gene discovered (MIT - Massachusetts...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The gene that causes Huntington's disease does most of its damage in the basal ganglia, shown in pink. The basal ganglia are responsible for many...
View ArticleDust in the clouds (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) At any given time, cirrus clouds - the thin wisps of vapor that trail across the sky - cover nearly one-third of the globe. These clouds coalesce...
View ArticleSwitching stances (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) For an MIT student, Alexis Sablone has an unusual web persona. The graduate student in architecture is prominent on ESPN's website - thanks to her...
View ArticleTeaching old microphones new tricks (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MICROPHONES exist in many shapes and sizes, and work in many different ways. In the late 19th century, early telephones relied on carbon...
View ArticleExploring the future of making things (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The Self-Assembly Line installation at TED Long Beach 2012 Photo: Skylar Tibbits | The Self-Assembly Lab, MIT Arthur Olson | Molecular Graphics...
View ArticleMojave Mirrors: World's Largest Solar Energy Ready to Shine
The Ivanpah Valley of the Mojave Desert in California is spiky yucca trees, long-nosed leopard lizards, loggerhead shrikes, and a rare species of tortoise—and soon, the largest solar thermal energy...
View Article3 Questions: Charles Stewart ranks the voting systems in the 50 states (MIT...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Do you live in a state that runs its elections particularly well, or poorly? And how would you know? Until recently, says Charles Stewart III, the...
View ArticleSolar power heads in a new direction: thinner (MIT - Massachusetts Institute...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The MIT team found that an effective solar cell could be made from a stack of two one-molecule-thick materials: Graphene (a one-atom-thick sheet...
View ArticleWaking up to a new year (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) In the time it takes you to complete a single workday, or get a full night's sleep, a small fireball of a planet 700 light-years away has already...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic's space tourism ship breaks sound barrier
Company selling tickets to ride for $200,000 2 sec. 3 sec. 4 sec. 5 sec. 6 sec. Buy Sun Media photos Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flies over the Mojave Desert in California April 29, 2013 shortly...
View ArticleExploring the future of making things (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The Self-Assembly Line installation at TED Long Beach 2012 Photo: Skylar Tibbits | The Self-Assembly Lab, MIT Arthur Olson | Molecular Graphics...
View ArticleConservationists in unlikely clash over solar energy in the desert
AMARGOSA VALLEY, Calif. - April Sall gazed out at the Mojave Desert flashing past the car window and unreeled a story of frustration and backroom dealings. Her small California group, the Wildlands...
View ArticleMars rover to get brain transplant
ROVER TO GET BRAIN TRANSPLANT Curiosity is going to have a four-day "brain transplant," an update that will give it the ability to use the geochemistry lab's sampling system, and to drive. The update...
View ArticleDesert tortoise an obstacle to Mojave solar development
In Ivanpah Valley, Calif. — Stubborn does not come close to describing the desert tortoise, a species that did its evolving more than 220 million years ago and has since remained resolutely...
View ArticleTortoises Manhandled for Solar Splits Environmentalists
It’s a 106-degree Fahrenheit day in the Mojave Desert. Heat devils dance off chocolate-hued Clark Mountain on the horizon. Air-conditioned cars zip along Interstate 15 toward Las Vegas. And inside a...
View ArticleA Really Inconvenient Truth: Sometimes You Have to Choose Between Climate...
It’s a true dilemma. Some might even call it the “Sophie’s Choice” of the environmentally minded: You’re worried about climate change, but you’re also an animal lover. How do you choose between the...
View ArticleAP Enterprise: Eyebrows raised as conservation groups make unusual deals...
LOS ANGELES - Long before studies showed one of the world's largest solar projects could harm or kill more than 1,100 tortoises in the Mojave Desert, the threatened creature's longtime champion...
View ArticleWhere Tortoises and Solar Power Don't Mix
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) -- For a sense of how complicated it is to combat climate change without collateral damage, consider the $56 million spent so far to rescue and relocate desert...
View ArticleThe reincarnation of rubbish
Tossing waste into your colour-coded bins is the first step in a long process of transformation, writes Melinda Ham. Recycling your household waste and placing it outside in wheelie bins that are red...
View ArticleGrow a sunflower to solve unfinished Alan Turing experiment
Manchester Science Festival sows the seeds of a very bright idea to honour the computer genius in his centenary year Bright, beautiful and a mathematical puzzle: sunflowers follow the light - and...
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