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New platinum compound shows promise in tumor cells

New platinum compound shows promise in tumor cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT chemists have developed a new platinum compound that is as powerful as the commonly used anticancer drug cisplatin but better able to destroy tumor cells.


MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest

MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest

Technology / Other

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A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won a 40,000-dollar prize for using social networking tools to identify the locations of 10 large weather balloons in a contest sponsored by ...


Rethinking artificial intelligence

Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind

Technology / Computer Sciences

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The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...