Breakthrough Enables Full Recharge of an Electric Vehicle in 10-Minutes
Electric vehicle owners may soon be able to pull into a fueling station, plug their car in, go to the restroom, get a cup of…
Electric vehicle owners may soon be able to pull into a fueling station, plug their car in, go to the restroom, get a cup of…
Skilled pilots approaching a runway usually can’t see small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) encroaching on their airspace, and they virtually never detect motionless drones, a…
New double-sided tape for tissues binds wet surfaces within seconds and could be used to heal wounds or implant medical devices. Inspired by a sticky…
According to some experts, nuclear power holds great promise for meeting the world’s growing energy demands without generating greenhouse gases. But scientists need to find…
Bacteria and other swimming microorganisms evolved to thrive in challenging environments, and researchers struggle to mimic their unique abilities for biomedical technologies, but fabrication challenges…
Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots can self-assemble to form various structures with applications including disaster relief. Swarms of simple, interacting…
For all our technological advances, nothing beats evolution when it comes to research and development. Take jumping spiders. These small arachnids have impressive depth perception…
Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body lengths away, catching…
Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a surface, shows new research by a team of scientists,…
From Cells To Galaxies And Beyond: Scientists in radio astronomy and medical imaging find common ground. “We are star stuff,” famous astronomer Carl Sagan once…
Helping autonomous vehicles see around corners: By sensing tiny changes in shadows, a new system identifies approaching objects that may cause a collision. To improve…
Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more. Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures…
Most security applications, for instance, access to buildings or digital signatures, use cryptographic keys that must at all costs be kept secret. That also is…
A joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that a quantum…
Materials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components…
Novel applications of a technology called coaxial electrospinning could improve contraceptive products and help. When you visit Andrew Steckl’s lab at the University of Cincinnati,…
With a new process developed at TU Wien (Vienna), living cells can be integrated into fine structures created in a 3D printer — extremely fast…
The process could work on the gas at any concentration, from power plant emissions to open air. A new way of removing carbon dioxide from…