High Quality Microlenses from Calcium Carbonate Structures
By studying the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, whose body is covered with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, scientists were able to create high quality…
By studying the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, whose body is covered with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, scientists were able to create high quality…
While working with mice, researchers were able to use a new magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI technique to predict Type-1 diabetes and were able to leverage this…
As efforts continue to improve nanotechnology and molecular electronic devices, a team of researchers has provided the first experimental determination of the pathways by which…
With every new technology, there are costs and environmental impacts to consider, and that’s exactly what MIT’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research group does. By routinely…
Report of a new method for directly measuring the atomic structure of nanomaterials was published today in the journal Nature. By taking measurements at 69…
Residents of northern California won’t have to worry about prisoners escaping from the Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in the event of a major earthquake….
A new study shows that cameras of the future may know what’s around a corner before you do. By using a system much like a…
By targeting phosphorus atoms and applying a complicated sequence of radio wave pulses, researchers were able to create an MRI technique that displays 3D images…
Scientists continue to improve upon nanotechnology and find new uses for it. By designing a custom integrated circuit using commercial semiconductor technology, researchers have developed…
The Concorde was the perfect means of oversea travel until expensive tickets, high fuel costs, limited seating and noise disruption from the jet’s sonic boom…
By coating a DVD disc with a film of graphite oxide that is then laser treated inside a LightScribe DVD drive to produce graphene electrodes,…
The first ever electrons with tunable properties were observed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. By repositioning the carbon monoxide molecules that were placed on…
Using an algorithm that infers body position and the shapes of the subjects’ hands, MIT engineers are working on software that could eventually help aircraft-carrier…
Using “two-photon lithography,” scientists at the Vienna University of Technology developed a high-precision 3D printer that can print five meters in one second. The printer…
A team of scientists at MIT have developed a new light source from a fiber roughly as thick as a human hair. The fiber has…
Based on computer simulations, new research shows that a new metamaterial design is able to absorb a wide range of light with extremely high efficiency….
By using the power of carbon nanotubes, scientists have almost tripled the speed of prototype nano-biosensors. The researchers believe that this nanotechnology will make it…
As manufacturers continue to increase their chip performance by increasing the number of cores they contain, the risk of failure and faulty design issues also…