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MIT researchers have created a silk fabric that can significantly reduce noise using piezoelectric fibers to counteract or block unwanted ...

And you thought your home wi-fi might be fast.

At only 2% the cost of NASA's Venus missions, this trip will be quite a bargain.

There's more to it than just some flashy fashion item.

The unit was tested at the beach and it worked on its first run.

Hopefully it will be available soon.

It's cool, it's small, it can do a backflip off the wall.

It could be a game changer.

A fresh take on an old problem.

Aquatic bots like SoFi will enable scientists to learn more about some of the most elusive underwater creatures.

I like everything about this!

No code? No problem!

Taking a cue from nature.

Some creepy deformities at large, but we get the idea: machines are getting smarter.

Who needs curtains when you can flip a switch and insta-magically change your windows' opacity.

It is my personal belief that education (including higher education) should be free -- or at least heavily subsidized. Unfortunately, ...

Lithium, the stuff the battery in your smartphone or notebook are made of, is a toxic substance and in short ...

An MIT research team has developed a new technology that will allow for the creation of lighter and thinner solar cells ...

How fast can your camera shoot? 60 frames per second, maybe 100? If you've got a good one, maybe 1000, ...

MIT scientists have developed a material that can absorb solar energy, stores and release it on demand to produce heat. ...

"Anyone who wants to be here now has a shot to be here," MIT President L. Rafael Reif said. "They ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a device that can track human silhouettes behind walls using Wi-Fi.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is on the brink of revolutionizing relaxation with their ...

MIT engineers demonstrated a working spectrometer that took a huge leap in scale from a huge, bulky lab gear to ...

Climate models and environmental monitoring missions are ever more reliant on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to scour the ocean depths ...

Many beetles have defense mechanisms which involves foul chemicals squirting from their abdomens, but bombardier beetles have taken it to ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to enlarge and map brain samples. This inexpensive ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that meteorites are the building blocks of our solar system - the lego blocks for ...

"Eat, Cook, Grow" makes us think about how digital technologies are changing our interaction with food.

We talk a lot about science and research, but we don’t spend enough time talking about the people who actually ...

Designed by the world's foremost social robotics expert, MIT's Cynthia Breazeal, Jibo looks like a cross between HAL 9000 and Eve ...

Lozano holds a prototype of a microthruster, developed to propel small satellites in space. PHOTO: BRYCE VICKMARK Paulo Lozano, of ...

Scientists at MIT have created tiny, millimeter-scale robots inspired by proteins that join together and can fold into various shapes. Though ...

Researchers at MIT have created a new metamaterial that they used to fashion a concave lens capable of focusing radio ...

New tests conducted by MIT researchers working at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies showed nanomaterials could lead to better armor ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a novel technique of creating cheap and reliable sensors for toxic gases by simply etching ...

Harnessing the oscillation of magnetic microscopic beads, MIT scientists have carried out experiments which show that it's possible to develop ...

The permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole, called Shackleton, after the famous Antarctic explorer. Left elevation mapping, ...

A team of researchers at MIT have successfully manage to fabric a fuel cell capable of running on glucose, which ...

Stephen Quake is a professor of bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ...

To test their algorithm, the researchers designed and built a system of 'smart pebbles' — cubes about 10 millimeters to ...

Scientists at MIT and Harvard University teamed up to figure out what would be the simplest 3-D structure capable of ...

When the brain deems an experience meaningful enough, it will transfer that information from short-term storage, where typically information like ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a new revolutionary technique, in which they re-purposed the trillion frames/second camera we told you ...

The now retired Concorde turbojets were the fastest civilian airliners in the world, capable of carrying passengers from Paris to ...

A group of researchers at MIT have successfully managed to create a light emitting diode (LED) that has an electrical ...

The prospect of medical implants capable of delivering drugs directly to the patient's blood stream or tissue has been an ...

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Current unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly referred to as drones, are packed with state of the art technology, but despite ...