Marking the Tenth Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
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Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry: " I’ll never forget hearing the news of the tsunami that struck in the Indian Ocean 10 years ago. The images were gut-wrenching: entire towns razed from Indonesia to Somalia; raging waters sweeping away people’s homes; hundreds of thousands killed and many more separated from their families.
FTC Warns Children’s App Maker BabyBus About Potential COPPA Violations
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Washington, DC - The staff of the Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to a China-based developer of mobile applications directed to children, warning that the company may be in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.
Study reveals resilience of Roman architectural concrete
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Berkeley, California - An international research team has revealed important clues to the longevity of such Roman architectural marvels as the Pantheon, Trajan’s Markets and the Coliseum.
Life in better light
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Over the years, EGG Energy, co-founded by MIT and Harvard University engineering and business students, has garnered public praise as the “Netflix of electricity” for rural Tanzania.
Industrial clusters fuel economies
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Experts have long theorized that having a cluster of firms within a given industry helps a region’s economy grow. Now a study co-authored by an MIT professor shows empirically that clusters of almost all kinds help drive overall economic growth in multiple ways, from job creation and development of intellectual property to the formation of new industries.
New law for superconductors
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - MIT researchers have discovered a new mathematical relationship - between material thickness, temperature, and electrical resistance - that appears to hold in all superconductors. They describe their findings in the latest issue of Physical Review B.
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