Voltage-Controlled Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips
A new thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting could lead to new memory chip designs. Two MIT…
Computer Science
‘Chemical Laptop’ Could Be Used to Search for Life Beyond Earth
Scientists have developed a miniaturized laboratory, called Chemical Laptop, that could be used to search for signs of life outside Earth. If you were looking…
“Data Science Machine” Replaces Human Intuition with Algorithms
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that replaces human intuition with algorithms. The “Data Science Machine” outperformed 615 of 906 human teams in…
Machine-Learning Systems That Can Help Predict the Effects of Neurodegenerative Disease
By combining MRI and other data, engineers from MIT are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the…
Engineers from Brown Develop Key Component for Terahertz Wireless
Engineers from Brown University have made progress on a key component for terahertz wireless: multiplexing and de-multiplexing a terahertz stream. Terahertz radiation could one day…
New System Converts MRI Scans into 3D-Printed Heart Models for Surgical Planning
Engineers and computer scientists at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a new system that can convert MRI scans of a patient’s heart into…
New Technique Could Enable Chips with Thousands of Cores
Researchers from MIT have unveiled the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence in more than three decades, a memory-management scheme that could help enable…
Engineers Developing ‘Hedgehog’ Robots That Hop and Tumble in Microgravity
Engineers from NASA, MIT and Stanford are developing “hedgehog” robots that are specifically designed to overcome the challenges of traversing small bodies in microgravity by…
Customizing 3D Printing – New System Automatically Turns CAD Files into Visual Models
A new Web-based interface allows a wide range of modifications to basic designs that are printable on a 3-D printer, allowing novices do in minutes…
Gallium Nitride Electronics Poised to Drastically Cut Energy Usage
Using an exotic material called gallium nitride (GaN), Cambridge Electronics Inc. has announced a line of GaN transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to…
New Statistical Technique to Help Evaluate Sites for Offshore Wind Farms
Scientists at MIT have developed a new statistical technique that yields better wind-speed predictions than existing techniques do, saving power companies’ time and money in…
New Network Design Exploits Power-Efficient Flash Memory
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that, for several common big-data applications, should make servers using flash memory as efficient as those using…
Engineers Develop a New Slimmer Design for Invisibility Cloaks
A team of engineers from UC San Diego have developed a new design for a cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing…
Engineers Design Printable Centimeter-long Origami Robot
Engineers at MIT have developed a tiny robot that can swim, climb an incline, traverse rough terrain, and carry a load twice its weight while…
Engineers Develop a Computer That Operates on Water
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. Their goal is to design a…
New Algorithm Lets Robots Autonomously Plan for Tasks
Researchers from MIT have developed a new algorithm that lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly, an important step forward in multirobot…
“Fingerprinting” Chips to Aid in Fight Against Counterfeiting
MIT spinout Verayo has created technology that tracks random variations in silicon chips to assign them unique “fingerprints” to aid in the fight against worldwide…
New Circuits That Can Control Light and Sound
A team of researchers has developed hybrid technologies that can control light and sound, allowing information to be stored, filtered, and manipulated with far greater…