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  • Proof positive : finding the cause of AIDS 
    Rulison, Megan R. (Megan Rebecca) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    In 2008, it will have been 25 years since HIV was first isolated from a patient with AIDS. In the early 1980s, when the mysterious disease of the immune system spread across the globe, scientists began a race to find the ...
  • Reentry 
    Corley, Anne-Marie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    "Reentry" most often evokes an image of the space shuttle flying through earth's atmosphere, glowing hot from friction, then landing on the runway and rolling to a halt. By then, the astronauts' job is finished. The hard ...
  • Scroop, luster, and hand : the science and sensuality of silk 
    Boyce, Jennifer E. (Jennifer Elaine) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    For five thousand years, silk threads have woven through the fabric of human history. Since its accidental discovery in China all that time ago, silk has played roles, major or minor, in many cultures. In both the East and ...
  • Searching for life where the sun don't shine : explorations to the seafloors of Earth and Europa 
    Fitzpatrick, Garret R (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Hydrothermal vents on Earth's seafloor host entire ecosystems that live off energy from chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis. This energy process uses chemical reactions between metals and hot gases from inside Earth's ...
  • Sense and sense-ability : the artful science of hands-on medicine 
    Collins, Allyson T. (Allyson Therese) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    Listening to lung sounds, feeling the pulse, observing posture and gait-these are just a few of the examinations that doctors perform on their patients. A physical exam exists for every organ, from the brain to the bones ...
  • Side effects : the new age of AIDS in America 
    Humphries, Courtney (Courtney Elizabeth) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    When the cocktail of AIDS drugs called highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) was introduced in 1997, it radically changed the picture of HIV and AIDS in the U.S. Deaths from AIDS plummeted by two-thirds. Now, far ...
  • Singing the Brain Electric 
    Chua, Grace (Grace W. J.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    Singing the Brain Electric Brain pacemakers, scientists have found, can treat depression by correcting neural circuitry gone haywire. This thesis examines how such technology - a technique known as deep-brain stimulation, ...
  • Stronger : the architects of a new intelligence 
    Craft, Stephen Paul (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    The modem world is awash in technology, little of which amazes like artificial intelligence. Siri speaks to us out of our iPhones. Google answers our every question. Watson, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing supercomputer, is popularly ...
  • The twitcing eye : REM sleep and the emotional brain 
    Beck, Taylor McGowin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Sleep and emotion have been linked since the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep sixty years ago. Sleep, in particular REM sleep and the dreams it harbors, seems to modulate mood, restoring stability to the weary ...
  • The unfinished miracle : how plastics came to be lost at sea 
    Martinez, Amanda Rose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    Plastic trash is an increasingly significant source of pollution in the world's oceans. In some remote ocean regions, it is aggregating by the ton. This thesis investigates plastic trash as an emerging marine contaminant, ...
  • When machines touch back : simulating-- and stimulating-- the most intimate of senses 
    Bullis, Kevin (Kevin James) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    Thomas Massie invented the Phantom, a computer peripheral for simulating the sense of touch, that became the de facto device for haptics research. The thesis recounts the story of Massie, his invention, and present and ...
  • Why we sing : an ode to our musical origins 
    Subbaraman, Nidhi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    Music is part of human culture and has been around for several thousand years. In spite of its strong emotional appeal, the history of this human characteristic, and the source of its allure remain elusive. This thesis is ...
  • Winging it : a bold step toward the whooping crane's return 
    McKenna, Philip Rood (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    Since the fall of 2001, biologists have taught endangered whooping cranes how to migrate over a once-lost course stretching from the wetlands of central Wisconsin to the mud flats of Florida's Gulf Coast. Wildlife biologists ...
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