Technology - general
Powering desalination with the sun
By By Julia Sklar, MIT News correspondent | 25 Jun 2015
Almost 60 per cent of India's groundwater is noticeably salty, but none of the filtration devices in the market do anything to mitigate the saltiness. An MIT student makes a village-scale desalination system that runs on solar power makes water drinkable
Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 24 Jun 2015
A new ultralow-power circuit doubles the efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 per cent, whereas previous ultralow-power converters that used the same approach had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 per cent
Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 24 Jun 2015
A new ultralow-power circuit doubles the efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 per cent, whereas previous ultralow-power converters that used the same approach had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 per cent
Engineers find a simple, yet clever, way to boost chip speeds
23 Jun 2015
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by 30 per cent
Recreating natural light in the lab
23 Jun 2015
Electricity’s human cost: Less sleep
20 Jun 2015
Playing games can shift attitude: study
18 Jun 2015
Graphene heat-transfer riddle unravelled
18 Jun 2015
Device that self-destructs when heated
15 Jun 2015
Scientists set to uncover DNA modification of wheat genome
13 Jun 2015
Scientists at the University of Liverpool are working to decode DNA modifications, known as ‘epigenetic marks’, in the wheat genome to understand its impact on crop variation
Atom-high steps halt oxidation of metal surfaces
By By Karen McNulty Walsh | 13 Jun 2015
Tiny origami robot climbs, swims and carries loads twice its weight
By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 12 Jun 2015
Weighing only a third of a gram, the robot can swim, climb an incline, traverse rough terrain, and carry a load twice its weight. Other than the self-folding plastic sheet, the robot’s only component is a permanent magnet affixed to its back. Its motions are controlled by external magnetic fields
Woman delivers healthy baby from ovarian tissue frozen in childhood
11 Jun 2015
A 28-year old has become the first woman to give birth to a healthy baby using ovarian tissue that was removed and frozen in her childhood
MIT team creates ultracold molecules
By By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office | 11 Jun 2015
Engineers develop computer that operates on water droplets
10 Jun 2015
Researchers have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets with the goal to design a new class of computers that can precisely control and manipulate physical matter