Technology - general

Brain's 'lowly' visual processor is more sophisticated than once thought

07 Apr 2015

An adhesive that could work underwater, in wet conditions for medical, construction, manufacturing industries

07 Apr 2015

Online illusion: Unplugged, we really aren’t that smart

By By Bill Hathaway | 06 Apr 2015

New camera chip provides superfine 3-D resolution

04 Apr 2015

Imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its integrated 3-D imager, send it to your 3-D printer, and within minutes you have reproduced a replica accurate to within microns of the original object

Curiosity Rover finds biologically useful nitrogen on Mars

01 Apr 2015

A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity Rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments

China plans massive space power station

31 Mar 2015

The futuristic power station would convert the generated electricity to microwaves or lasers and transmit it to a collector on earth

Drone manufacturers look to developers for drone apps

31 Mar 2015

"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