Can you feel me now? (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Vibrotactile displays mounted around the waist and back are used to study how people use vibrotactile cues to navigate in unfamiliar environments....
View ArticleAn answer to a lunar mystery: Why is the moon’s gravity so uneven? (MIT -...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Using a precision formation-flying technique, the twin GRAIL spacecraft have mapped the moon's gravity field, as depicted in this artist's...
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Spy program shows just how well US knows its people The US government is spying on its own citizens' phone calls and internet data. So what can these huge datasets tell them about us? Tendrils of...
View ArticleUV rays in your fridge could keep strawberries perfect
Tired of fresh strawberries turning fuzzy after a few days in the refrigerator? Bathing them in dim ultraviolet light from LEDs could more than double their storage life, while preserving compounds...
View ArticleGraffiti codes let you surf with a wave of your phone
EVERYWHERE you look nowadays there seems to be a QR code. Those are the complicated square patterns that contain links to websites, for example, in a format smartphone cameras can read. Problem is,...
View ArticleSilk Pavillion – CNC Deposited Silk & Silkworm Construction at the MIT Media...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Created at the Mediated Matter Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological...
View ArticleHow to discover an antibiotic: a historian's guide
Given our pressing need for new antibiotics, or a whole new class of antibiotic-like drugs, perhaps we ought to try learning lessons from the history of penicillin (it might even help someone win the...
View ArticlePrinting artificial bone (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers develop method to design synthetic materials and quickly turn the design into reality using computer optimization and 3-D printing....
View ArticleGoogle invests $12 million in South African solar farm
By Dana Hull dhull@mercurynews.commercurynews.com Posted: 05/30/2013 09:01:14 AM PDT May 30, 2013 4:2 PM GMTUpdated: 05/30/2013 09:01:15 AM PDT By Dana Hull Google (GOOG) has invested $1 billion in a...
View ArticleCreativity within constraints (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) This article originally appeared in the Spring 2013 issue ofSpectrvm. J. Meejin Yoon, an award-winning artist, architect and designer, is best...
View ArticleLearn game development at MIT this summer (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The MIT Game Lab is for the first time providing a one-week course to expose professionals to their research and development methods for game...
View ArticlePrehistoric animal has big role in energy's future
Ivanpah Valley, -- Calif. - Stubborn does not come close to describing the desert tortoise, a species that did its evolving more than 220 million years ago and has since remained resolutely...
View ArticleReading DNA, backward and forward (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT biologists reveal how cells control the direction in which the genome is read. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT biologists have discovered a mechanism...
View ArticleMIT researchers build Quad HD TV chip (MIT - Massachusetts Institute of...
(Source: MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A new video-coding standard - known variously as ultrahigh-def (UHD), Quad HD or 4K - promises four times the resolution of today's...
View ArticleSacrificing the desert to save the Earth
Reporting from Ivanpah Valley, Calif.— Construction cranes rise like storks 40 stories above the Mojave Desert. In their midst, the "power tower" emerges, wrapped in scaffolding and looking like a...
View ArticleVirgin Galactic's space tourism ship breaks sound barrier
Company selling tickets to ride for $200,000 2 sec. 3 sec. 4 sec. 5 sec. 6 sec. Buy Sun Media photos Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flies over the Mojave Desert in California April 29, 2013 shortly...
View ArticleMojave Solar Power Plant Could Flip Airplanes, Blind Drivers and Vaporize...
Posted: June 24, 2012 The world’s largest solar power plant is currently being built in the Mojave desert and some experts are worried that the Ivanpah plant and its 170,000 garage-door sized solar...
View ArticleReading the fine print of BrightSource's $250 million IPO
BrightSource Energy, the California solar power plant builder backed by Google, Morgan Stanley and Silicon Valley venture capitalists, filed for a $250 million initial public offering on Friday. The...
View ArticleSolar firms' flight to Mojave Desert sparks environmental friction
MOJAVE DESERT, Calif -- MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. - At first glance, the vast Mojave Desert seems barren: mile after mile of dust, sand and scrubby creosote bush under a blistering sun. But the huge...
View ArticlePhotographer Jamey Stillings: Seeing the Big (Solar) Picture
A person might wonder how images of a bunch of mirrors in a desert would yield beautiful -- and important -- photography. Welcome to the work of Jamey Stillings. In January 2013, our friends at the...
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