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 ...
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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 ...
A Fridge That Will Do Your Groceries For You?
Modern technology and the internet is now becoming a part of everyday kitchen appliances. And this is just the beginning. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Brain glucose might power the future’s tiny medical implants
[caption id="attachment_13223" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Brain power: harvesting power from the cerebrospinal fluid within the subarachnoid space. Inset at right: a ...
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 ...
Toy-inspired “Buckliball” paves the way towards a new class of engineering structures
Scientist 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 ...