MIT Linguist Shigeru Miyagawa: Unique Languages, Universal Patterns
MIT linguist reveals how modern English resembles Old Japanese, and other surprising convergences between far-flung tongues.
View ArticleResearchers Develop Autonomous Robot That Moves Like An Earthworm
Researchers at MIT, Harvard University, and Seoul National University have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves much like an earthworm.
View ArticleProtein Makes Malaria-Infected Red Blood Cells Rigid
When human red blood cells are infected with malaria, a protein called RESA stiffens the cell membranes, impairing the cells’ ability to travel through blood vessels.
View ArticleChia-Chiao Lin, MIT Institute Professor Emeritus, Has Died At 96
Chia-Chiao Lin, an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT who played a pivotal role in the development of applied mathematics both in the United States and in China, died Sunday in Beijing.
View ArticleIndia And Asia Collided 10 Million Years Later Than Previously Thought
A new study suggests that the collision between India and Asia occurred only 40 million years ago - 10 million years later than previously thought.
View ArticleMIT Researchers Study Pandemic Potential Of H5N1 & H7N9 Virus
MIT studies of the H5N1 and H7N9 influenza viruses reveal genetic mutations that could result in pandemic flu.
View ArticleAir Pollution May Shorten Lives By Years, Study
A new study, based on long-term data collected in China, has estimated the extent to which air pollution may shorten human lives.
View ArticleHow Anti-Poverty Programs Go Viral
A study shows how that anti-poverty programs are much more popular when socially well-connected citizens are the first to know about them.
View ArticleNew View Of Dengue Fever
Researchers have produced a “humanized mouse” to study how the mosquito-borne dengue virus depletes blood platelets.
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