MIT Engineers Develop Autonomous “Selfie Drone”
If you’re a rock climber, hiker, runner, dancer, or anyone who likes recording themselves while in motion, a personal drone companion can now do all…
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Newly Engineered FlatScope Makes Microscope Lenses Obsolete
Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those…
Engineers Discover Inexpensive Material to Make High Color Quality LEDs
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has used data mining and computational tools to discover a new phosphor material…
NASA Designing Submarine to Explore Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn’s Moon Titan
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane. Washington State University researchers…
Volcanic Ash Reduces the Energy Required to Manufacture Concrete
MIT engineers working with scientists in Kuwait have found that volcanic rocks, when pulverized into a fine ash, can be used as a sustainable additive…
MIT Launches Intelligence Quest To Advance Human and Machine Intelligence Research
MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of technological…
Origami-Inspired Robot Opens New Avenues for Microsurgery, Microassembly
Because of their high precision and speed, Delta robots are deployed in many industrial processes, including pick-and-place assemblies, machining, welding, and food packaging. Starting with…
Is This New Design a Major Step Toward Portable AI Devices?
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat. Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons….
Ultra-Thin ‘Atomristors’ Pave the Way for More Powerful Computing
Engineers worldwide have been developing alternative ways to provide greater memory storage capacity on even smaller computer chips. Previous research into two-dimensional atomic sheets for…
Researchers Create Frequency Comb to Encrypt Data and Protect Cryptocurrencies
Data travels through thousands of miles of fiber optic cables underneath the world’s oceans–via pulses of light. And according to experts, the data in these…
New Technique Illuminates the Inner Workings of AI Systems
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in…
Engineers 3D Print Programmed Cells Into Living Devices
Engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from genetically programmed living cells. The cells are…
New MoS2 Nanowires Could Point Toward Future Electronics, Solar Cells
“Two-dimensional materials” — materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick — are promising for both high-performance electronics and flexible, transparent electronics…
TrueNorth Computer Chip Emulates Human Cognition
Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait until everyone in all the other cubicles completed the tasks…
MIT Develops 3D Desktop Printer That is 10 Times Faster Than Existing Counterparts
Engineers at MIT have developed a new desktop 3D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than existing commercial counterparts. Whereas the most common…
New Microscope is 1,000 Times More Precise Than Current Techniques
The microscope is 1000 times more precise than current techniques, allowing the creation of wetting maps as a new concept for hydrophobic surface characterization. Wetting…
MIT Engineers Develop a New Way to Store Thermal Energy
Researchers from MIT have created a material that provides optically-controlled long-term storage and release of thermal energy. In large parts of the developing world, people…
No More Blackouts? New Framework Guarantees the Stability of Microgrids
By installing capacitors, MIT engineers reveal a new method for guaranteeing the stability of any microgrid that runs on direct current. Today, more than 1.3…
