From ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Blade Runner’ to ‘The Matrix’, Hollywood has taught us to be wary of artificial intelligence. But rather than sealing our doom…
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The MIT startup Pison Technology, founded by Dexter Ang ’05, is using sensors to turn biopotentials on the skin into digital commands for smartphones, robots,…
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Wind energy scientists at Cornell University have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds for all…
View More New Global “Wind Atlas” Propels Sustainable Energy for All Parts of the World
A prototype backpack harvests energy from walking to power small electronics, and it makes loads feel lighter. Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07498…
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Abstract Illustration. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) A pulsed-laser repetition rate of 57.8 GHz was achieved by inserting a resonator containing graphene.…
View More Increasing Optical Data Transmission Speed by a Factor of at Least 10,000
Schematic of perovskite material with organic molecules that can add to its electronic properties. Credit: Jingjing Xue and Rui Wang/UCLA Samueli School of Engineering UCLA…
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MIT researchers are developing a superconducting nanowire, which could enable more efficient superconducting electronics. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Inspired by decades-old MIT research, the new…
View More Resistance Is Futile: Nanowire Could Provide a Stable, Easy-to-Make Superconducting Transistor
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University discovered that squeezing a promising lead halide material in a diamond anvil cell (left) produces a…
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Chameleon-Like Material Spiked With Boron Comes Closer To Mimicking Brain Cells In a new study, Texas A&M researchers in the Department of Materials Science and…
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A close-up depiction of the new fiber-free optical WiFi antenna. Silver nanocubes are spaced just a few nanometers above a silver base, with fluorescent dyes…
View More Ditching the Fiber in Fiber Optics: Capturing Free-Space Optical Light for High-Speed WiFi