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On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does — and by a substantial margin.
New study solves an arthritis drug mystery
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- Written by Anne Trafton - MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Pharmaceutical companies once considered a protein called p38 a very attractive target for treating rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis patients usually have elevated activity of this inflammation-producing protein, and in lab studies p38 inhibitors appeared to soothe inflammation. However, these drugs failed in several clinical trials.
Water rescue robot EMILY gets some help from the sky
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- Written by NSF
Los Angeles, California - If you haven't needed the services of the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, or EMILY, count yourself lucky. EMILY is called into action by lifeguards and emergency response teams around the world for water rescues.
Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - It’s hard to believe that a single material can be described by as many superlatives as graphene can. Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have found that the lacy, honeycomb-like sheet of carbon atoms - essentially the most microscopic shaving of pencil lead you can imagine - is not just the thinnest material known in the world, but also incredibly light and flexible, hundreds of times stronger than steel, and more electrically conductive than copper.
In California We Are Focusing on Bridges, Not Walls
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- Written by IVN
Sacramento, California - Noting the lofty focus and collaborative spirit of first-time visits to California from past U.S. presidents like Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today sent President Donald J. Trump a letter reminding him that “in California we are focusing on bridges, not walls” and invited him to the Central Valley – where more than a dozen bridges and viaducts are being built for the nation’s first and only High-Speed Rail line.
Viral tool traces long-term neuron activity
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - For the past decade, neuroscientists have been using a modified version of the rabies virus to label neurons and trace the connections between them. Although this technique has proven very useful, it has one major drawback: The virus is toxic to cells and can’t be used for studies longer than about two weeks.
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