MIT Engineers Control and Separate Fluids Using Visible Light
MIT engineers have developed a new system that uses light to control the way water moves over a surface. This advance may open the door…
MIT engineers have developed a new system that uses light to control the way water moves over a surface. This advance may open the door…
By using an adhesive-like layer of nickel to peel graphene from silicon carbide, engineers at MIT have developed a technique to produce highly conductive wrinkle-free…
Engineers have designed a microfluidic device that mimics the pumping mechanism of trees and plants, generating passive hydraulic power that may be used to make…
A team of researchers has discovered a new way of using laser light to tune electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal. Faster, more…
By incorporating a laminated nanostructure into steel, a team of engineers has developed a way to give steel bone-like resistance to fracturing under repeated stress….
A team of researchers at MIT has devised a new technique to measure dopamine in the brain much more precisely than previously possible, which should…
New research from MIT reveals a practical way to introduce second-order nonlinearities into silicon photonics, showing that silicon can reproduce physical phenomena exploited by high-end…
Engineers from MIT’s Microsystems Technologies Laboratories have designed a new power converter that maintains its efficiency at currents ranging from 100 picoamps to 1 milliamp,…
A team of engineers from MIT has developed transparent, gel-based robots that may one day assist in surgical operations and evade underwater detection. Engineers at…
For the first time, team of engineers from MIT has probed the mechanical properties of a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material to determine its mechanical performance…
A team of researchers from Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital has developed a customizable soft robot that fits around the heart and helps it…
A new system called Data Civilizer automatically finds connections among many different data tables and allows users to perform database-style queries across all of them….
Engineers from UCLA are developing a new electromagnetic wave router that offers unlimited bandwidth. Mobile phones and computers use electromagnetic waves to send and receive…
A team of engineers at MIT has successfully designed a new 3D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength,…
Researchers from MIT reveal that extreme precipitation events should become more frequent as the Earth’s climate warms over this century. On December 11, 2014, a…
Aerospace engineers believe that fuel consumption can be reduced by embedding an aircraft’s engines into the boundary layer and ingesting the airflow. Car, truck, train,…
Engineers at MIT and NASA have developed a new kind of bendable, “morphing” wing that could enable more efficient plane manufacturing and flight. When the…
Engineers from Yale University have developed a new technique to control the frequency of single photons. The ability to control the frequency of single photons…