This laser link has achieved the fastest data transfer from space to date. It’s 1,000 times faster than before
And you thought your home wi-fi might be fast.
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Rocket Lab and MIT are poised to send the first private mission to Venus, to search for signs of life
At only 2% the cost of NASA's Venus missions, this trip will be quite a bargain.
Engineers use 19th-century photography technique to create stretchy, color-changing films
There's more to it than just some flashy fashion item.
Portable briefcase-sized device could make saltwater drinkable
The unit was tested at the beach and it worked on its first run.
MIT develops new, cheap, fast Covid-19 test, is awaiting approval from FDA
Hopefully it will be available soon.
MIT’s newest, diminutive robot can do backflips and outrun you in every single way
It's cool, it's small, it can do a backflip off the wall.
Passive sun-powered device turns water into superheated steam
It could be a game changer.
New role-playing game engages people from all backgrounds with climate action
A fresh take on an old problem.
Fish-like robot might reveal the secret life of ocean wildlife
Aquatic bots like SoFi will enable scientists to learn more about some of the most elusive underwater creatures.
Novel 3D printing method makes furniture in vats of gel within minutes
I like everything about this!
NASA’s morphing wing will make airplanes smoother, more efficient
Taking a cue from nature.
MIT machine makes videos out of still images to predict what happens next
Some creepy deformities at large, but we get the idea: machines are getting smarter.
Self-shading windows switch from transparent to opaque, no power required
Who needs curtains when you can flip a switch and insta-magically change your windows' opacity.
MIT celebrates 15 years of open courseware – no excuse not to learn science!
It is my personal belief that education (including higher education) should be free -- or at least heavily subsidized. Unfortunately, ...
Batteries made from carbon nanotubes are lit like a fuse to make power
Lithium, the stuff the battery in your smartphone or notebook are made of, is a toxic substance and in short ...
MIT develops new solar cells, 400 times more efficient and light enough to drape a soap bubble
An MIT research team has developed a new technology that will allow for the creation of lighter and thinner solar cells ...
Trillion fps camera shoots advancing light waves
How fast can your camera shoot? 60 frames per second, maybe 100? If you've got a good one, maybe 1000, ...
MIT polymer paves the way for solar-heated clothes
MIT scientists have developed a material that can absorb solar energy, stores and release it on demand to produce heat. ...
MIT’s online courses can now lead to a degree
"Anyone who wants to be here now has a shot to be here," MIT President L. Rafael Reif said. "They ...
MIT Wi-Fi technology can see you through walls
Researchers at MIT have developed a device that can track human silhouettes behind walls using Wi-Fi.
MIT tackling more serious science: they program beer-delivering robots
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is on the brink of revolutionizing relaxation with their ...
Spectrometer is small enough to fit in your smartphone
MIT engineers demonstrated a working spectrometer that took a huge leap in scale from a huge, bulky lab gear to ...
Autonomous underwater gliders plan missions and coordinate by themselves
Climate models and environmental monitoring missions are ever more reliant on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to scour the ocean depths ...
The Bombardier Beetle Packs a Hot Machine Gun
Many beetles have defense mechanisms which involves foul chemicals squirting from their abdomens, but bombardier beetles have taken it to ...
Expanding Brain Samples to Better See Them
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to enlarge and map brain samples. This inexpensive ...
Meteorites Not Responsible For Building Solar System, Study Finds
For decades, astronomers have believed that meteorites are the building blocks of our solar system - the lego blocks for ...
Reactivating positive memories might fight depression [TED Talk]
Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu are two neuroscientists who are at the very forefront of their field. Their work is ...
Book review: ‘Eat, Cook, Grow’
"Eat, Cook, Grow" makes us think about how digital technologies are changing our interaction with food.
Featured Researchers: This Week in Science
We talk a lot about science and research, but we don’t spend enough time talking about the people who actually ...
Meet Jibo, the family robot or the HAL 9000 you always wished for
Designed by the world's foremost social robotics expert, MIT's Cynthia Breazeal, Jibo looks like a cross between HAL 9000 and Eve ...
Next generation of tiny satellites could explore space propelled by ion thrusters
Lozano holds a prototype of a microthruster, developed to propel small satellites in space. PHOTO: BRYCE VICKMARK Paulo Lozano, of ...
Precursurs to real-life Transformers: tiny robots join together and fold into shapes
Scientists at MIT have created tiny, millimeter-scale robots inspired by proteins that join together and can fold into various shapes. Though ...
New metamaterial focuses radio waves with extreme precision similar to Star Wars’ Death Star
Researchers at MIT have created a new metamaterial that they used to fashion a concave lens capable of focusing radio ...
Nanomaterials to prevent speeding bullets
New tests conducted by MIT researchers working at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies showed nanomaterials could lead to better armor ...
Carbon nanotubes drawn with a pencil render cheap and reliable sensors
Researchers at MIT have developed a novel technique of creating cheap and reliable sensors for toxic gases by simply etching ...
Micro-beads based system could allow for instant laboratory analysis
Harnessing the oscillation of magnetic microscopic beads, MIT scientists have carried out experiments which show that it's possible to develop ...
Signs of water ice found on one of the moon’s craters
The permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole, called Shackleton, after the famous Antarctic explorer. Left elevation mapping, ...
Brain glucose might power the future’s tiny medical implants
A team of researchers at MIT have successfully manage to fabric a fuel cell capable of running on glucose, which ...
Prolific inventor, Stephen Quake, awarded the Lemelson-MIT $500,000 prize
Stephen Quake is a professor of bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ...
‘Smart sand’ could morph into any object automatically
To test their algorithm, the researchers designed and built a system of 'smart pebbles' — cubes about 10 millimeters to ...
Toy-inspired “Buckliball” paves the way towards a new class of engineering structures
Scientists at MIT and Harvard University teamed up to figure out what would be the simplest 3-D structure capable of ...
Memories are stored in specific brain cells, MIT Inception-like research finds
When the brain deems an experience meaningful enough, it will transfer that information from short-term storage, where typically information like ...
Ultra-speed camera developed at MIT can “see” around corners
Researchers at MIT have developed a new revolutionary technique, in which they re-purposed the trillion frames/second camera we told you ...
Supersonic biplane design cancels sonic boom effect
The now retired Concorde turbojets were the fastest civilian airliners in the world, capable of carrying passengers from Paris to ...
MIT engineers create LED that has 230% efficiency. Thermodynamics laws still in place
A group of researchers at MIT have successfully managed to create a light emitting diode (LED) that has an electrical ...
A pharmacy under your skin – microchip implanted in patients delivers drugs
The prospect of medical implants capable of delivering drugs directly to the patient's blood stream or tissue has been an ...
How to make photosynthetic solar panels, MIT scientist explains
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MIT research might help UAVs fly with the agility of hawks
Current unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly referred to as drones, are packed with state of the art technology, but despite ...
Wall-penetrating radar renders real time video of what’s going on behind it
Real-time Through-wall Imaging Using an Ultrawideband Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Phased Array Radar System. (c) MIT Lincoln Lab A common ...
