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Accounting for everyone 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Rodrigo Verdi is aware that accounting does not have the most — how to put it — alluring reputation. He senses, from the first time students walk into his accounting class, their anticipation that the...
How quickly can a bacterium grow? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
All living things must obey the laws of physics — including the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the universe’s disorder, or entropy, can only grow. Highly ordered cells and organisms a...
Teaching entrepreneurship with discipline 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Discipline may not be the first quality people associate with entrepreneurship. But according to Bill Aulet, senior lecturer and managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, ...
Rethinking investment risk 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Financial innovation is supposed to reduce risk — in theory, at least. Yes, new financial instruments based on the housing market helped cause the financial crisis of 2008. But in the abstract, those ...
Bringing the law to the factory 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
The recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has renewed attention to the global issue of workplace standards. In many countries, similar problems have arisen from a lack of enforcement for existing laws...
The gold standard for cell penetration 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Cells are very good at protecting their precious contents — and as a result, it’s very difficult to penetrate their membrane walls to deliver drugs, nutrients or biosensors without damaging or destroy...
An entrepreneur aims to work in Africa 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
On the long, bumpy drive to her grandmother’s house in Accra, Ghana, seven-year-old Sarah Dimson began to notice some stark disparities between her home in Norman, Okla., and the country of her parent...
Brain circuit can tune anxiety 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, suc...
Dental scanner allows researcher to sink his teeth into entrepreneurship 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Traditionally, dentists have made dental impressions by having patients bite down on a moldable silicone material. Such impressions, however, can be messy and uncomfortable, and sometimes inaccurate. ...
Solving the mysteries of regeneration 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Few animals can rival the amazing regeneration abilities of the flatworms known as planarians: When the worms’ tails or heads are cut off, they grow new ones, and even a tiny piece of planarian tissue...
