Engineering
High-flying turbine produces more power
By By Rob Matheson | MIT News Office | 16 May 2014
Proven to produce double the energy of similarly sized tower-mounted turbines, the system can also carry a payload of, say, wi-fi equipment and provide connectivity to six to eight times the area covered by a tower
Bioprinting a 3D liver-like device to detoxify the blood
10 May 2014
The device, which is designed to be used outside the body , much like dialysis, uses nanoparticles to trap pore-forming toxins that can damage cellular membranes and are a key factor in illnesses that result from animal bites and stings, and bacterial infections
Buy and scan your hand to pay
23 Apr 2014
Global research aims to make dams safer for fish
14 Apr 2014
Driving down fuel usage
By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office | 10 Mar 2014
When the vehicles brake, a process known as “regenerative braking” captures the kinetic energy, usually dissipated as heat through friction, and converts it into electricity that charges the battery — which, in turn, releases the energy to the electric motor during acceleration
Robots that can keep secrets
04 Mar 2014
Humanoid robots are not just the stuff of science fiction; these computing devices are likely to be walking around our streets in the next decade
Herding robots
14 Feb 2014
A new system combines simple control programs to enable fleets of robots, or other “multi-agent systems”, to collaborate in unprecedented ways.
3-D scanning, with a smartphone
By By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office | 01 Feb 2014
Caltech professor designs unique wind turbines
29 Jan 2014
Placing these unique vertical-axis turbines in a particular orientation to one another profoundly improves their energy-generating efficiency
Human arm sensors make robots smarter
17 Jan 2014
Magnetic nanoparticles could aid heat dissipation in N plants
23 Nov 2013
Particles suspended in cooling water could prevent hotspots in nuclear plant cooling systems and electronics