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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In the age of digital content creation and circulation, there are myriad new considerations media and marketers alike need to take into account when communicating to key audiences. The need for listening to and empathizing with audiences, new processes of content curation and the challenges of properly using new technologies and platforms for storytelling are just a few. These issues, along with several other topics, will be the focus...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Living Proof announced today it is joining creative forces with Jennifer Aniston as she becomes a co-owner and hair care spokesperson in the ground-breaking company. Living Proof was founded by Dr. Robert Langer, Institute Professor of MIT and by Jon Flint and Amir Nashat of Polaris Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm that supports the translation of scientific discoveries into meaningful products. Living Proof has...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Chemists at MIT have created a customized, carbon nanotube lead that can be used to draw freehand electronic circuits using a conventional, mechanical pencil. A typical pencil lead is fashioned out of graphite -- a form of carbon made up of layers of graphene -- and a clay binder. Whenever a person writes with a graphite pencil, a mixture of tiny graphene flakes and clay are deposited on the paper, leaving behind a mark. In the...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The fall leaves look like confetti piling up in your back yard with brilliant reds, golds, and oranges. They can be thought of as natural stores of carbon, as well as a beautiful nuisance that you have to rake up each Autumn. Leaves soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the spring, converting the gas into organic carbon compounds. In the fall, the leaves fall from the trees and decompose in the soil as they are eaten by...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online MIT researchers have developed a prototype sensor array that can be worn on the chest to automatically map out an environment surrounding the wearer. The wearable sensor system can create a digital map of the environment that the person who is using it is moving in. During experiments, students wore the sensor system while wandering halls at MIT. The sensors wirelessly relayed data back to a laptop in a conference room, and...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online MIT researchers are working on a technique that will allow needle-free vaccinations by using ultrasound waves. The team wrote in the Journal of Controlled Release that applying two separate beams of ultrasound waves can uniformly boost permeability across a region of skin more rapidly than using a single beam of ultrasound waves. “This could be used for topical drugs such as steroids — cortisol, for example — systemic drugs...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Databases are the backbone of the Web. If you have every read stories on Yahoo!, shopped on Amazon, booked a flight on Kayak, posted on Facebook or Twitter, or downloaded a song from iTunes, you have used those databases. Most major websites maintain huge databases for everything from inventory and customer reviews, to seat availability on flights, to photos and comments. Almost any transaction on any major site, be it shopping, travel,...
New Technology May Solve Longtime Joining Challenge and Improve Reactor Safety COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- EWI, the innovation leader in materials joining and allied technologies, announced today that its silicon carbide (SiC) joining samples have emerged stable from six months of aggressive irradiation and water flow testing in the core of MIT's research nuclear reactor in Cambridge, MA. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110908/DC64441LOGO)...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, or LMBC, a clean technology company working to commercialize an innovative electricity storage solution, unveiled its new name - Ambri. With the input of its employees, industry partners, and investors, Ambri is launched as a reflection of the Company's core culture and principal purpose to bring a low-cost, reliable and long-lasting grid-scale battery to market. (Logo:...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online MIT scientists say a new two-dimensional material may be able to open up a plethora of future applications. Reporting in the journal Nano Letters published online this month, researchers say they have already succeeded in making a variety of electronic components out of a new material similar to the one-atom graphene, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), Tomás Palacios, the Emmanuel E. Landsman Associate Professor of EECS and a...
