Have you ever wanted a ball of Silly Putty as big as your head? Now you can make it at home. The University of Minnesota’s Chemistry Department has instructions on how to make it on their website.

Intelligent software that brings rough sketches to life in a virtual world is promising to revolutionise the way children learn and to help engineers visualise their designs.
In designing the software, developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have had to tackle several tough tasks. First the software must recognise crude hand-drawn shapes in the way [...]

The lives of many cancer patients are saved by the transfusion of platelets, but there is a chronic shortage of these fragile blood-clotting components because of spoilage. A new technique may double the shelf life of platelets and create a more reliable supply, researchers say.
In a study appearing in the journal Science, Harvard University [...]

The coolest thing in the Universe is now a cloud of sodium atoms in a laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Physicists from the MIT-Harvard Centre for Ultra-Cold atoms have chilled 2500 sodium atoms to within half a billionth of a degree of absolute zero, the temperature at which atomic oscillation slows to a standstill.