Jet packs, robot maids, and flying cars were all promises for the 21st century. We got mechanized, autonomous vacuum cleaners instead. Now a team of…
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Bacteria-Sized Metallic Robots Take On Microplastics – And Win by Breaking Them Down
Metallic microrobots (dark blue dots) colonize a jagged piece of microplastic under visible light, breaking down the plastic into smaller molecules. Credit: Adapted from ACS…
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Battery Technology Breakthrough: An Atomic Look at Lithium-Rich Batteries
Visualization of a lithium-rich cathode. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University and Northeastern University Batteries have come a long way since Volta first stacked copper and zinc…
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Systems Thinking From MIT Unleashes Capacity at Mexico’s Largest Brewery
How a pair of MIT Sloan Executive Education alumni translated teachings from an MIT course to operations improvements at Heineken México. It’s no secret that…
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REVIEW: Ratchet and Clank is the new poster child of next generation gaming
Ratchet and Clank is the new poster child of next generation gaming. Rift Apart has been billed as the first true showcase of the PlayStation…
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Ultra-High-Density Hard Drives Made With Graphene Store 10x More Data
Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge…
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Producing Graphene at Industrial Scale: High-Performance Computing Helps Refine Process for Improved Efficiency
Snapshot from MD simulation of graphene on liquid Cu. Credit: Santiago Cingolani. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have been using GCS HPC resources…
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Microsoft taking Xbox games directly to TVs
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming team is introducing more ways for people to connect and play without the need for game consoles. Microsoft on Thursday said it…
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Self-Sustaining, Intelligent, Electronic Microsystems Created – Operate Much Like Self-Autonomous Living Organisms
This illustration captures the essence of the newly developed electronic microsystem. Credit: UMass Amherst A research team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created…
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DENSe: New Twist on DNA Data Storage Lets Users Preview Stored Files
Researchers from North Carolina State University have turned a longstanding challenge in DNA data storage into a tool, using it to offer users previews of…
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