Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT have developed a new drug-delivery capsule coated with tiny needles that can inject drugs directly into the lining…
Engineers at MIT have developed a two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal that has the ability to absorb sunlight from a wide range of angles while…
Using approximately 10,000 times less gold than in previous studies, researchers from Western University improve solar power performance with new “gold nanocluster” technology. Scientists at…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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 has won a DARPA grant to further develop their lightweight Soft Exosuit. The Exosuit is pulled on like a pair of pants and…
A newly published study details how “digital metamaterials” could help bring invisibly cloaks closer to reality. The concept of “digital metamaterials” – a simple way…
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…
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…
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…
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”,…