Materials Engineered to Give Off Precisely Tuned Wavelengths of Light When Heated A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT can be powered solely by heat, generating elect... Read more
While scientists have long had the ability to edit individual genes, it is a slow, expensive and hard to use process. Now researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed technologies, which th... Read more
While solar panels are very useful at converting the sun’s rays into electricity for immediate use, the storage of that energy for later use is … well, it’s still being fig... Read more
We’ve been following MIT’s progress on creating solar cell-coated paper since 2010, and we’re excited to report the current findings of the project. What looks and feels li... Read more
Proponents of flying cars like to state how much less likely collisions would be up in the air, where everyone wouldn’t be traveling on the same level, yet mid-air collisions between a... Read more
A cross-discipline project that brings together biomedicine and nano-engineering has led to the development of a dime-sized microfluidic device that can rapidly detect cancer cells in a bloo... Read more
A team of six undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has converted a 2010 Mercury Milan hybrid into a pure battery electric car. Read more
Despite a relatively tepid consumer take-up, the buzz surrounding 3D televisionis still quite intense. But even the viewing improvements offered by stereoscopic technology may pale by compar... Read more
DOCTORS doing a needle biopsy to analyze tissue for cancer may one day add a second step to the procedure: depositing a tiny device at the site to report on growth of a tumor — and even the... Read more
Basically, it takes your name and searches the web for some context around it. It then takes the words and sites it finds to build a profile of your presence on the web. Read more