Obama honours Gates and others with Medal of Freedom
"Everybody on this stage has touched me in a very powerful, personal way, in ways that they probably couldn't imagine," said the outgoing US president.
Nov 23, 2016, 12:12 PM IST
Glial – Brain cells that play vital role in controlling appetite identified!
Neuroscientists at MIT found that activating these brain cells stimulates overeating, and that when the cells are suppressed, appetite is also suppressed.
Oct 19, 2016, 13:30 PM IST
Indo-American scientist awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
An Indo-American imaging scientist and inventor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been conferred with the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize for his path-breaking inventions to improve lives globally.
Sep 14, 2016, 18:43 PM IST
This tattoo can be used to control your computer, smartphone
Researchers have created a temporary metallic tattoo that can be used to control your computer, smartphone and other connected devices.
Aug 16, 2016, 09:14 AM IST
Software to let you control smartphone with eyes
The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Georgia and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Informatics has so far been able to train software to identify where a person is looking with an accuracy of about a centimetre on a mobile phone and 1.7 centimetres on a tablet, MIT Technology Review reported.
Jul 02, 2016, 15:29 PM IST
Amazon is now world's smartest company
Amazon has grabbed the top spot in MIT`s annual list of the world`s smartest companies of 2016.
Jul 01, 2016, 18:35 PM IST
Super30 founder gets teaching offer from MIT's online initiative
Kumar has got the offer from edx, a massive open online course (MOOC) provider and an initiative of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Jul 01, 2016, 17:37 PM IST
Cambridge, MIT experts to help design syllabi of Indian institutions
Irani said experts from institutions like University of Edinburgh, MIT and Cambridge have been roped in to upgrade the curriculum in social sciences, sciences, mathematics and engineering.
Jun 03, 2016, 18:17 PM IST
Merely 8 tweets can disclose your identity, office and home address!
Reserachers from Oxford University and MIT have showcased that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts, as few as eight over the course of a single day, can be enough to disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively low-tech snooper.
May 18, 2016, 09:42 AM IST
Gas molecules can help find life on exoplanets
Biosignature gases emitted by exoplanetary life forms could be detected remotely by space telescopes but these gases might have quite different compositions from those in the Earth's atmosphere.
May 06, 2016, 15:24 PM IST
New system finds security flaws in popular web apps
US researchers have created a new system that can quickly comb through tens of thousands of lines of application code to find security flaws in popular web-based apps.
Apr 16, 2016, 16:57 PM IST
Here`s how our brain processes emotions
Some mental illnesses may stem, in part, from the brain's inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. For example, people who are depressed often do not feel happy even when experiencing something that they normally enjoy.
Apr 01, 2016, 14:56 PM IST
New Mars gravity map reveals chilling details – Watch!
Gravity maps allow us to see inside a planet, just as a doctor uses an X-ray to see inside a patient, says scientist.
Mar 22, 2016, 11:47 AM IST
New 'social' robot can teach better than humans
Researchers have developed a socially assistive robot called "Tega" that is designed to serve as a one-on-one peer learner in or outside of the classroom.
Mar 16, 2016, 00:22 AM IST
MIT of Boston may associate with India's flagship programmes
A discussion in this regard took place when MIT President Rafael Reif called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday.
Jan 28, 2016, 18:57 PM IST
Marvin Minsky, pioneer in artificial intelligence, passes away aged 88
Professor Minsky, who died on Sunday, January 24, 2016, was 88.
Jan 26, 2016, 21:44 PM IST
MIT engineers develop new aircraft queueing model
The researchers claim that the aircraft queueing model predicts how long a plane will wait before takeoff, given weather conditions, runway traffic, and incoming and outgoing flight schedules.
Jan 14, 2016, 17:17 PM IST
ICC seeks MIT's help to achieve uniformity in DRS
The DRS has faced criticism from several quarters, especially from the powerful BCCI, for not being 100 per cent foolproof.
Jan 05, 2016, 21:12 PM IST
Clothes smarter than you are: Welcome to the future!
A researcher with Fluid Interfaces at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Coelho works at the cutting edge of wearable devices that may be smarter than the person wearing them.
Nov 23, 2015, 08:53 AM IST
NASA to send Valkyrie humanoid robot to Mars - Watch
NASA is planning to send its R5 humanoid robot, also known as Valkyrie, to Mars and even into deeper space locations.
Nov 19, 2015, 10:51 AM IST
