Move over, Martha Stewart. Some new gardeners are coming to town, or at least, to Cambridge.

Small and produced for $3,000, they were created by a class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the hope of aiding farmers in growing their crops.

According to the Associated Press, the technology allows the robots to move around the garden on a base similar to the Roomba vacuum, using a computer to network the machines to cherry tomato plants. The network apparently communicates when the …

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When you’re curled up on the couch, sniffling and shivering, with a pounding headache and aching body, it’s hard to imagine any such thing as a good virus. But according to scientists, many viruses have the potential to help, rather than hurt, humans. Over the years, this has been proven time and again. For example, in 1952 Martha Chase and Alfred Hershey used viruses to help establish that DNA, rather than protein, forms the basis of heredity.

And now, some MIT researchers have figured out a way …

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