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Solving the world’s great challenges
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- Written by Jessica Fujimori
Cambridge, Massachusetts - How can we use information technology to improve health care outcomes? How can we make the Internet accessible to people everywhere? How will we provide a secure food supply for 9.6 billion people?
Quantum physics meets genetic engineering
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Nature has had billions of years to perfect photosynthesis, which directly or indirectly supports virtually all life on Earth. In that time, the process has achieved almost 100 percent efficiency in transporting the energy of sunlight from receptors to reaction centers where it can be harnessed - a performance vastly better than even the best solar cells.
Latest experiment at Large Hadron Collider reports first results
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - After a two-year hiatus, the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, began its second run of experiments in June, smashing together subatomic particles at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) — the highest energy ever achieved in a laboratory. Physicists hope that such high-energy collisions may produce completely new particles, and potentially simulate the conditions that were seen in the early universe.
How the brain controls sleep
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Sleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep. However, MIT neuroscientists have discovered a brain circuit that can trigger small regions of the brain to fall asleep or become less alert, while the rest of the brain remains awake.
Robots and us
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - If you follow technology news - or even if you don’t - you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a decade or more. These fully automated vehicles could potentially be safer than regular cars, and might add various efficiencies to our roads, like smoother-flowing traffic.
Early Childhood Stress Affects Brain's Response to Rewards
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- Written by John Head
Durham, North Carolina - A Duke University-led study has pinpointed how early childhood stress affects the adult brain’s response to rewards. Their findings suggest a possible pathway by which childhood stress may increase risk of depression and other mental health problems in adulthood.
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