Technology - general

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

New detector sniffs out origins of methane

11 Mar 2015

New 2-colour X-ray laser technique could reveal atomic structure of medically important proteins

11 Mar 2015

A 'Flickr-ing' view of the world, in 4-D

10 Mar 2015

Imagine a version of Google Street View where you could hit the rewind button and see any point in time over the last five years. Cornell researchers are building something like that, at least for a few much-visited places

Permafrost's turn of the microbes

09 Mar 2015

Scientists question rush to build Nicaragua canal

09 Mar 2015

A consortium of environmental scientists has expressed strong concern about the impact of the controversial 172-mile, $50-billion Central American canal planned across Nicaragua

Scientists question rush to build Nicaragua canal

09 Mar 2015

A consortium of environmental scientists has expressed strong concern about the impact of the controversial 172-mile, $50-billion Central American canal planned across Nicaragua

New flow battery to keep big cities lit, green & safe

07 Mar 2015

The new zinc-polyiodide redox flow batter uses an electrolyte that has more than twice the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid

Mystery solved: why seashells’ mineral forms differently in seawater

By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 05 Mar 2015

The new discovery could be a step toward enabling the directed synthesis of new materials on demand in the lab — useful for technological applications