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Early-childhood intervention can make a great difference for children with speech and language disorders, in their later academic and social success. But many such children — one study estimates 60% — go undiagnosed until kindergarten or…

Perfect for gamers who are looking for their first gaming mouse, the BIOSTAR AM2 gaming mouse has been announced by BIOSTAR and features an Avago 5050 sensor capable of up to 2400DPI of tracking. As competitive gaming grows more and more,…

The growth of many individual cells can be measured simultaneously thanks to a new technique invented at MIT. The advance holds promise for fast drug tests, offers new insights into growth variation across single cells within larger…

There’s been a stark disconnect between solar wind outpouring and the sun itself ever since the 1950s discovery of the solar wind – the constant flow of charged particles from the sun. As it approaches Earth, the solar wind is gusty and…

by Daisy Stapley-Bunten. With the development of apps such as ‘Pokémon Go’, technology has started to encourage tech geeks to venture outdoors and be active. But not just for the gamer, there has also been a surge in technology for…

A way to record complex histories in the DNA of human cells, allowing them to retrieve "memories” of past events, such as inflammation, by sequencing the DNA, has been devised by MIT biological engineers. This analogue memory storage system…

With numerous studies pointing to a high prevalence of sports-related concussions, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, among youth and professional athletes, head injuries are a hot topic today in sports medicine. Now an MIT-invented tool is…

Science, engineering, and entertainment computer simulations of physical systems are common but they use several different types of tools. If, say, you want to explore how a crack forms in an airplane wing, you need a very precise physical…