Bismuth-Antimony Material Shares Graphene’s Unusual Properties
Just recently Rice University shared news of their 2-D Boron Nanotubes that have advantages over carbon nanotubes and now scientists at MIT have found another…
Just recently Rice University shared news of their 2-D Boron Nanotubes that have advantages over carbon nanotubes and now scientists at MIT have found another…
Using MIT students as his team, MIT professor Donald Sadoway is set to make his liquid-battery concept a reality. Based on floating layers of high-temperature…
Anyone that has every taken a bike ride, jogged or walked along a busy street knows how bad the air feels and smells and has…
Over the years antibiotics have saved many lives, but scientists never fully understood the process of how bacteria were killed, until now. A new study…
As hip and knee replacements become more common, so too does the risk of complications for those patients, including the risk of premature failure. Engineers…
As the demand for oil continues to rise, so does the risk of disasters like the Deepwater Horizon spill that took place in the Gulf…
Researchers in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics have developed a new strategy to help treat and measure brain pressure without the invasive drilling of the…
As the demand for faster computers continues to rise, so does the demand for microchips that will power those computers. While the idea of adding…
Medical technology is moving fast and microfluidics may provide answers to health conditions as easy as a placing a drop of blood on a plastic…
Borrowing design ideas from a toy, scientists at MIT and Harvard have developed a new type of engineered capsule, dubbed “buckliball.” This one-piece silicone sphere…
As efforts continue to improve green technology and the performance of solar photovoltaic cells, a team of MIT scientists have developed a new space saving…
By building on a technology known as two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, scientists at MIT have developed a way to analyze proteins that doesn’t require any pre-treatment….
Lost memories may be a thing of the past as neuroscientists conduct research on mice to test memory recall. By using optogenetics and stimulating the…
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…
There is more to Mercury than scientists previously thought. MESSENGER, the first ever probe to enter orbit around Mercury, has collected more than four million…
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…
To better understand climate change and global warming, researchers realize that they must address carbon emissions. A new study suggests using deep saline aquifers that…
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…