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MIT modeling study finds 52% of projected global population in 2050 will live in water-stressed areas

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A modeling study by researchers at MIT projects that 5 billion (52%) of the world’s projected 9.7 A large portion of these regions already face water stress—most notably India, Northern Africa and the Middle East. billion people in 2050 will live in water-stressed areas.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering.

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Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration

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Inspired by the high-speed maneuvering of cheetahs, roboticists at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa , have started experimenting with the old-school sibling of hydraulic actuators—pneumatics. University of Cape Town, South Africa With a boom for support, the 7-kilogram Kemba is able to repeatedly jump to 0.5

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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Her team’s research program included projects in Australia and Africa. Mildred Dresselhaus worked at MIT, which she joined in 1960 as a researcher in its Lincoln Laboratory Solid State Division, in Lexington, Mass. One was an MIT electrical engineering student to whom she had given one of her old spectrometers to start his research.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. Google Earth , she was able to gather and annotate more than 1,000 images of beaches in Africa, Australia, and North America. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles. A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER. The second-place winner was Brian Minnick, who developed a self-replicating 3D printer.

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MIT team claims development of first practical artificial leaf

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In a presentation at the 241 st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society today in Anaheim, Dr. Daniel Nocera of MIT said that his team has developed a practical “artificial leaf”—a type of solar cell that shows promise as an inexpensive source of electricity for the poor in developing countries. Earlier post.).

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Study Concludes That an Aggressive Global Cellulosic Biofuels Program Could Have Unintended Consequences

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An aggressive global cellulosic biofuels program could contribute substantially to future global-scale energy needs, but could have significant unintended environmental consequences, according to a recent report by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

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