Technology - general

Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage

15 Jul 2015

The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology has been developed to store solar energy for up to several weeks - an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells

Detecting cyber-attack patterns in complex computing networks

15 Jul 2015

Cutting cost and power consumption for big data

14 Jul 2015

Elon Musk funds Oxford, Cambridge research on safe and beneficial AI

13 Jul 2015

Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who fears AI as "summoning the demon", hopes his research would help develop safer Artificial Intelligence

Simulations improve understanding of crystalline HMX explosives

11 Jul 2015

Bacteria use DNA replication to time key decision

11 Jul 2015

An innovative project to bring electricity to rural India receives a boost

10 Jul 2015

Approximately 70 per cent of Indians live in rural communities with only 44 per cent of these households having access to electricity

Smart stuff: IQ of Northwest power grid raised, energy saved

10 Jul 2015

Encryption for everyone

10 Jul 2015

Nanotech transforms cotton fibres into modern marvel

09 Jul 2015

Nanotech transforms cotton fibres into modern marvel

09 Jul 2015

Linux founder Linus Torvalds dismisses fears over AI

08 Jul 2015

Linus Torvalds dismissed fears over the overarching ability of AI, expressed in recent weeks by some of the most famous minds, including Stephen Hawking

Study of first-time smartphone users reveals devices may be detrimental to learning process

08 Jul 2015

Better memory with faster lasers

08 Jul 2015

Tiny wires could provide a big energy boost

By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 07 Jul 2015

Aluminum clusters shut down molecular fuel factory

07 Jul 2015

Work e-mail affecting personal lives of employees

06 Jul 2015

Single-catalyst water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7

06 Jul 2015

Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost water splitter that uses a single catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas 24 hours a day, seven days a week

Researchers show how our sense of smell evolved, including in cave men

06 Jul 2015

‘Smart Handpumps’ to bring a reliable water service to rural Africa

06 Jul 2015

Researchers stretch a thin crystal to get better solar cells

04 Jul 2015

Crystalline semiconductors such as silicon can catch photons and convert their energy into electron flows. New research shows that a little stretching could give one of silicon's lesser-known cousins its own place in the sun