Technology - general
Amplifying — or removing — visual variation
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 09 Nov 2015
New lithium air batteries could be 10x more powerful than current batteries
05 Nov 2015
A new technology could free everything from smartphones to electric cars from the limits placed by lithium ion batteries
A basis for all cryptography
03 Nov 2015
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand
Towards a smarter grid
31 Oct 2015
The smart grid will also be much more distributed than the current network, which controls a relatively small number of generators to provide power to millions of passive endpoints
Clothes we wear are riddled with toxins: study
30 Oct 2015
New ATM does away with using cards
28 Oct 2015
New ATM does away with using cards
28 Oct 2015
Are cars nanotube factories on wheels?
21 Oct 2015
It’s solid: storing hydrogen in a new form
21 Oct 2015
New LCD technology could make eyeglasses history
21 Oct 2015
Devesh Mistry, an Indian-origin researcher in the UK is developing an adjustable artificial lens, made from the same material found in smartphone and TV screens, which could improve vision in older people with presbyopia and cataract
Quantum physics meets genetic engineering
By David L Chandler | MIT News Office | 19 Oct 2015
Identical twins to have birthdays four months apart due to pre-mature delivery of older twin
16 Oct 2015
Research that is simply beyond belief
15 Oct 2015
Global marine analysis suggests food chain collapse
13 Oct 2015
Marine ecologists from the University of Adelaide say the expected ocean acidification and warming in responses to rising human CO2 emission is likely to produce a reduction in diversity and numbers of various key species that underpin marine ecosystems around the world
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