MIT Engineers Develop Underwater Robot for Port Security
Engineers from MIT have developed a football-size robot that can provide added port protection by skimming discreetly along a ship’s hull to search for hollow…
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MIT Engineers Develop New Technologies to Battle Superbugs
Using a gene-editing system that can disable any target gene, MIT engineers have shown that they can selectively kill bacteria carrying harmful genes that confer…
Carbon Nanotube Patches Improve Heart Function
Using carbon nanotubes, researchers at Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital have created heart-defect patches that improve electrical signaling between immature heart cells. Living heart…
New Formula Improves Liquid Battery Technology
MIT engineers have developed an improved liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. Extensive testing has shown…
Phase-Change Materials Increase the Speed Limit for Computers
By replacing silicon with phase-change materials, new research shows that computers could be capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently models….
Liquid Inks Create More Efficient and Cheaper Solar Cells
A team of scientists from the California NanoSystems Institute is using liquid inks to create better solar cells, improving efficiency and lowering costs. The basic…
Programmable Biofilm-Based Materials That Self-Assemble
A newly published study details how researchers at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University are using biofilms to create self-healing materials and…
Scientists Develop First Water-Based Nuclear Battery
Using a water-based solution, researchers at the University of Missouri have created a long-lasting and more efficient nuclear battery. Columbia, Missouri – From cell phones…
Rice Wireless Engineers Unveil a Multiuser, Multiantenna Transmission Scheme for UHF
By combining several proven technologies that are already widely used in wireless data transmission, engineers from Rice University have created a multiuser, multiantenna scheme to…
Wyss Institute Continues to Develop Its Soft Exosuit
Wyss Institute has won a DARPA grant to further develop their lightweight Soft Exosuit. The Exosuit is pulled on like a pair of pants and…
‘Digital Metamaterials’ Bring Invisibility Cloaks Closer to Reality
A newly published study details how “digital metamaterials” could help bring invisibly cloaks closer to reality. The concept of “digital metamaterials” – a simple way…
Untethered Electric Robotic Cheetah Runs and Jumps Across the Grass
MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that allows their electric powered robotic cheetah to run and jump, untethered, across grass. See the MIT cheetah-bot…
Graphene Paint Makes Impermeable and Chemically Resistant Coatings
New research from the University of Manchester demonstrates how a thin layer of graphene paint can make impermeable and chemically resistant coatings, which could be…
New Nanotechnology Aids in Electron Cooling Without External Sources
Using a nanoscale structure that consisted of a sequential array of a source electrode, a quantum well, a tunneling barrier, a quantum dot, another tunneling…
Researchers Successfully Synthesize 2D Material Germanene
A newly published study details how a team of researchers successfully synthesized the 2D material germanene for the first time. Dubbed a “cousin of graphene”,…
Layered Graphene Could Open Up New Ranges of Electronic Devices
Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered that sandwiching layers of graphene with hexagonal boron nitride could produce designer materials capable of creating high-frequency…
Sun-Powered Desalination Technology Could Provide Drinking Water for Villages
A newly published study from MIT shows that a desalination technology powered by solar panels could provide enough clean drinking water for many of the…
BMGs – A New Generation of Strong Pliable Materials
Yale researchers have developed a new method that softens bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) sufficiently to allow for shaping – allowing the researchers to use the…
