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Cambridge, Massachusetts - MIT engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels. The “smart wound dressing” releases medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and can be designed to light up if, say, medicine is running low.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Synthetic biology - which involves engineering biological systems for new uses - has become an increasingly prominent, and promising, field of study in colleges and universities worldwide.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light - the physical phenomenon behind polarized sunglasses and most 3-D movie systems - they can increase the resolution of conventional 3-D imaging devices as much as 1,000 times.
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Durham, North Carolina - New research from Duke University helps explain the paradox of why we are quick to blame people for their actions, but slower to give them credit.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what they hear from their fathers. These songs, often used as mating calls, develop early in life as juvenile birds experiment with mimicking the sounds they hear.
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Paris, France - California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today kicked off the first of five days at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, participating in the UNFCCC COP21’s official “Action Day” event and a panel with Oscar-winning director Charles Ferguson and world-renowned primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall following a screening of the new climate change documentary, “Time to Choose.”
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