Stepping ‘beyond binary’ to store data in more than just 0s and 1s. Electronic data…
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Technology refers to the tools, systems, and methods developed through scientific knowledge to solve problems, enhance capabilities, and improve quality of life. It spans a broad range of fields—from computing and biotechnology to renewable energy and materials science—and evolves rapidly through research and innovation. Technology not only shapes how we communicate, work, and travel, but also plays a critical role in advancing science itself, enabling everything from high-powered telescopes to gene-editing tools. As new technologies emerge, they raise important questions about ethics, accessibility, and long-term impacts, making their development and deployment a central focus of scientific and societal discourse.
Book co-authored by MIT Associate Professor Julie Shah and Laura Major SM ’05 explores a…
Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn’t need a wireless or main power source. Or…
System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost…
Possible pathway to fast-switching, ultra-low energy electronics based on 2D materials. Moore’s law is an…
Led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee,…
Engineers invent way to spray extremely thin wires on 3D objects. Engineers have invented a…
Custom-fabricated lenses make it easy to attach high-tech microscopes directly to cell incubators. An optical…
An international team of researchers developed a novel technique to produce precise, high-performing biometric sensors.…
The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic and photonic devices is causing cooling of…
In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech’s Lihong Wang has developed…
Scientists design a novel quantum circuit that calculates the fast Fourier transform, an indispensable tool…
MIT engineers have made their initial design more practical, efficient, and scalable. Researchers at MIT…
Transportable radio telescopes could provide global high-precision comparisons of the best atomic clocks. Using radio…
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain in a…
Researchers working to maximize solar panel efficiency said layering advanced materials atop traditional silicon is…
Manufacturing safer, more powerful batteries that use geopolitically stable resources requires solid electrolytes and replacing…
Physicists have created a broadband detector of terahertz radiation based on graphene. The device has…