Jul 8, 2015 | Brain & Behavior, Health
Nitrous oxide, commonly known as “laughing gas,” has been used in anesthesiology practice since the 1800s, but the way it works to create altered states is not well understood. In a study published this week in Clinical Neurophysiology, MIT researchers reveal some key... 
Jun 30, 2015 | Technology
The days of wasting condiments — and other products — that stick stubbornly to the sides of their bottles may be gone, thanks to MIT spinout LiquiGlide, which has licensed its nonstick coating to a major consumer-goods company. Developed in 2009 by MIT’s Kripa... 
Jun 24, 2015 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
An advanced manufacturing approach for lithium-ion batteries, developed by researchers at MIT and at a spinoff company called 24M, promises to significantly slash the cost of the most widely used type of rechargeable batteries while also improving their performance... 
Jun 18, 2015 | Brain & Behavior
MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can cure the symptoms of depression in mice by artificially reactivating happy memories that were formed before the onset of depression. The findings, described in the June 18 issue of Nature, offer a possible explanation for... 
Jun 12, 2015 | Technology
At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, MIT researchers presented a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and measures about a centimeter from front to back. Weighing only a third of a gram,... 
Jun 10, 2015 | Physics & Mathematics
New book argues that economic development is a special case of the growth of information. Cesar Hidalgo, the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, has a PhD in statistical physics, but he’s applied the... 
Jun 10, 2015 | Brain & Behavior
Teenagers who are incarcerated tend to have substantially worse outcomes later in life than those who avoid serving time for similar offenses, according to a distinctive new study co-authored by an MIT scholar. “We find that kids who go into juvenile detention are... 
Jun 10, 2015 | Brain & Behavior
New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially. Until now, studies of human interactions through mobile communication and social media have always been conducted at the country scale — using broad strokes to produce... 
