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MIT researcher and renowned physicist, Dr. Andreas Mershin, figured out a way to make electricity-generating solar cells from green grass. Here is the recipe he and his team discovered: organic material, like grass clippings or agricultural waste, is...
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[The student], who scored the maximum 2400 on the SAT and 2390 — 10 points below the ceiling — on subject tests in physics, chemistry and calculus, was denied admission by Princeton, Harvard, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Buildings under a hazy skyline are seen in downtown Guangzhou, capital city of China's southern Guangdong province, in this November 17, 2004 file photo. China's worsening air pollution, after decades of unbridled economic growth, cost the country $112... View Photo »
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia, Stanford and Yale universities declined by 4.72 percent, 5.68 percent, 0.83 percent and 18.01 percent respectively
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Researchers from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that regions such as the New York City metropolitan area that currently experience a disastrous flood every century could instead become submerged every one or...
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Researchers have used the spectrograph from the Hubble Space Telescope, which enabled the light to be split into spectrum of wavelength. The dips in spectrographic data told about the presence of atoms of the rare Earth element as the atoms absorbed...
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In his remarks, Suresh will highlight several priority initiatives for NSF in support of STEM activities and education, including the critical role of engineers. Suresh, himself an engineer, was dean of the school of engineering and the Vannevar Bush...
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A man rides a tricycle carrying a couch on a road amid heavy smog in central Beijing, in this October 31, 2011 file photo. China's worsening air pollution, after decades of unbridled economic growth, cost the country $112 billion in 2005 in lost... View Photo »
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Jon Gruber, the MIT economist who helped design both the Massachusetts Health Plan and the Health Insurance Exchange provisions of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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He was 21. Anderson was found dead when campus police were called to do a well-being check at Next House late yesterday morning. The Cambridge Police Department and his family were notified. The Massachusetts State Police and the Middlesex District...
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That's what 17-year-old Laura Deming did when she won a fellowship based on her goal of finding and funding anti-aging technologies and left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Because she is not yet 18, she finds herself faxing documents such...
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