Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to create and install tiny microbatteries which are the size of half a human cell. Using viruses to generate power, this new type of battery could one day power ...

A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have suggested an intriguing technique for producing an especially resistant armor for soldiers of the future. The military-funded research, which draws its inspiration from a study of a primitive ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have improved the power output of a certain type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent. Their creative use of technology could help these environment friendly energy storage devices find a much ...

Researchers at Harvard’s Whitesides Research Group may have found a way to make microfluidics technology much cheaper by taking advantage of the natural movement of liquid through paper. Hopefully, their work will lead to the creation of disposable diagnostic tests, ...

The uBot-5 is a robot which was recently designed and built at the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The uBot-5 can perform many useful tasks that entail the mobile manipulation of objects- including acquiring, transporting, ...

In an attempt to bring one of the most famous inventions of the 20th century into the digital age, scientists of the “Ambient Intelligence Group” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed the “intelligent stickies”. These are essentially Post-its ...

Researchers working for the Boston Retinal Implant Project have been developing a bionic eye implant that could restore the eye sight of people who suffer from age-related blindness. Although the bionic eye will only help individuals that were born with ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Texas Instruments Company have discovered a way to significantly decrease microchip energy consumption to one tenth of the current rates. This reduction in power consumption translates into longer battery life for ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a class of material structures that can repel oils. This discovery may have applications in various fields, but will probably be used mainly in the aviation and space-travel industries. The ...

2007 is approaching its finish line, bringing us one step closer to the future. This was a year packed with new technologies, new applications, important (and not-so-important, but certainly nonetheless interesting) discoveries and inventions. Here we present some of the ...