Technology - general

"Bionic leaf" uses bacteria to convert solar energy into liquid fuel

30 Mar 2015

Engineers working to pack more laser beams, and data, into fibre optic strands

30 Mar 2015

As digital traffic soars, researchers strive to send multiple laser beams, each with it’s own data stream, through fibre-optic strands that can only handle a single beam today

Better debugger: researchers develop algorithm for identifying integer-overflow bugs

30 Mar 2015

Researchers develop artificial hand that performs precise movements

28 Mar 2015

An artificial hand developed by engineers from Saarland University in Germany has sensory properties and is capable of performing extremely precise movements

Analysis sees many promising pathways for solar photovoltaic power

By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 28 Mar 2015

New kind of “tandem” solar cell developed

By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 27 Mar 2015

Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight

Engineers develop methods to speed up simulatiods in computational grand challenge problems

27 Mar 2015

Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns

26 Mar 2015

Making drinking water safe at the source

By By Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the E | 26 Mar 2015

Landmark study proves that magnets can control heat and sound

26 Mar 2015

The study is the first ever to prove that acoustic phonons — the elemental particles that transmit both heat and sound — have magnetic properties

Large Hadron Collider prepares to probe more mysteries of the universe

25 Mar 2015

During the past two years of down-time, the LHC has been upgraded and will run at twice the energy of the experiments that discovered the Higgs boson, the long-hypothesized particle that gives all others mass

Researchers develop new approach that combines biomass conversion, solar energy conversion

24 Mar 2015

CLRI develops ‘green’ technology for leather tanning

23 Mar 2015

The new technology ensures saving of 15 million litres per day of water in the Indian leather sector alone - and an estimated 200 million litres per day if this revolutionary technology is applied globally

New study suggests silk could be new “green” material for next-generation batteries

23 Mar 2015

Birthdays, Schooling and Crime: What's the Link?

23 Mar 2015

Overexposure to artificial light at night a killer: study

21 Mar 2015

Excessive exposure to artificial rather than natural lighting can cause cancer, diabetes, depression, and other diseases, the US study has found

Researchers build high res 3D scans from drone photos

21 Mar 2015

Magnetic brain stimulation

By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 20 Mar 2015

Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan elected president of Britain’s Royal Society

19 Mar 2015

Ramakrishnan, the first Indian-origin scientist to hold the post, studied physics at Baroda and biology in the US before shifting to Britain where he shared the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize for discovering the precise structure of ribosomes

Robotic fish designed to protect real ones from pollution

17 Mar 2015

Bristling with sensors, the self-navigating robot mimics how real fish swim, monitoring for signs of environmental degradation.

Optical fibres light the way for brain-like computing

14 Mar 2015

Beating bird wings generate electricity for data collector

14 Mar 2015

Electrospray thruster makes small satellites more capable

14 Mar 2015

Popular origami pattern makes the mechanical switch

14 Mar 2015

Japanese researchers transmit electric power wirelessly

13 Mar 2015

The technology could pave the way for space-based solar power projects once the challenge of creating huge infrastructure in space and maintaining them is overcome