Originally written for the MIT News by Anne Trafton. Spinach is no longer just a superfood: By embedding leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect
Originally written for the University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences by Matt Wood. Research provides blueprint for building neuroprosthetic devices that recreate the sense of touch by directly stimulating the
You may think you are anonymous on the web, but you really aren’t. Stanford and Princeton researchers have shown how anonymous browsing history and Twitter usage is enough to reveal
Urban revitalization is getting an update that combines crowdsourcing and machine learning. Theories in urban planning that infer a neighborhood’s safety based on certain visual characteristics have just received support from
Biocompatible fibers could use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease. Originally published by MIT News Office, written by Jennifer Chu. Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School
Researchers are promising intricate 3D soundscapes that are to audio what holograms are to images – all coming from a single lego-like source. You probably never felt like it should be possible to get
The pursuit for clean energy has achieved a major leap on the last day of MIT’s 23-year old nuclear fusion reactor. Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of energy sources,
UCI study reveals that galactic cosmic rays may cause brain damage after prolonged exposure, raising concerns regarding future interplanetary spaceflights. It has only been two weeks since Elon Musk unveiled
Google Brain Team and their subsidiaries DeepMind and [X] have revealed the learning method for robots to end all learning methods. Humanity has an entire list of activities that we cannot
It looks like there is a definite ceiling to the lifespan of a human being – and we have reached it. The study that has shown statistical evidence of a
