The open ocean is daunting enough when it's relatively calm, but add in the existence of huge, seemingly randomly occurring walls of water, and it becomes downright terrifying. Now, researchers at MIT ...

MIT researchers say they’ve taught test subjects how to manipulate their own alpha brain waves, thereby improving attention at a given task. The key: give the participants live feedback of their brain ...

We’ve written about the possibilities that carbon nanotubes can unlock before, and now, an intrepid team of MIT scientists have discovered a never before known phenomenon using the tubes, which are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans have figured out many ways to utilize radio waves, X-rays, microwaves, infrared light, and many other types of ...

Rogue waves can be disastrous at sea, often dwarfing a ship and striking without warning. Thanks to a new rogue wave prediction tool developed by a team of engineers at MIT, however, sailors may have ...

Predictive analytics can already help prevent churn and anticipate equipment failures, but MIT has applied it to a new realm altogether: protecting ships at sea from so-called “rogue waves.” Also ...