If you haven’t seen the origami robot yet, you’re in for a fantastic surprise! Evoking the potential of an ancient and wonderful Japanese art, these crawling robots can self-assemble from … [Read full article]
Tag: MIT
Towerless Buoyant Air Turbine May Expand Wind Energy's Reach
We cover wind turbine news here on a regular basis, but now this excellent renewable technology, currently second only to solar, may be capable of going towerless. Altaeros Energies has … [Read full article]
Tree Branches Make Very Effective Improvised Water Filters, Research Finds
A very low-tech, but highly effective, new approach to water filtration has been developed by researchers at MIT. Using nothing but a small piece of sapwood, which you can find … [Read full article]
MIT Group Creates Amazing Interactive 'Touch' Display Technology [VIDEO]
Making Data ‘Tangible’: It’s called inFORM and it comes from MIT’s Tangible Media Group…and it’s got to be one of the coolest and most amazing interactive display technologies I’ve seen … [Read full article]
Newfound Planet Being Turned to Dust by Its Sun
A newly discovered exoplanet appears to be evaporating from the heat of its parent star, according to new research by MIT and NASA. The planet appears to be followed … [Read full article]
Air Pollution Linked to Early Death in UK
A new study from MIT links air pollution to early death in the UK. Intuitive, but the research and proof is always welcome and useful. Here are more details … [Read full article]
100-Year Floods & Storms May Happen Every 3-20 Years from Climate Change
The News: MIT and Princeton University researchers have found that extreme weather events that are supposed to occur about once every 100 years are likely to occur every three to … [Read full article]
MIT Researchers Create 'Analog' Chip That Mimics Brain Synapses, Receptors
Readers may recall a post here on PS (August, 2011) concerning a new computer chip that ‘thinks’ like a brain cell (i.e., responds to new information), due to its clever … [Read full article]
Where Was it Made? SourceMap Tracks the World’s Goods [VIDEO]
Once, when I was in school, I was playing with a salt shaker and began wondering just where the salt came from and how it got here from wherever it … [Read full article]
Global Weirding News of the Week
It’s been a little more than a week since my last Global Weirding News of the Week update, but better late than never… This one is an especially long update, … [Read full article]
New Nano-tech Device Takes Salt Out of Sea Water
Engineers at MIT–lead by Jongyoon Han–have developed a promising nano-tech system for separating charged salt ions from water, and which also separates out unicellular contaminants. But more challenges remain.
One Man's Trash is…Well, Trash: MIT Announces Trash Track Program
[social_buttons] Would you be so cavalier in throwing out a disposable razor if you knew how much it actually impacted your local environments? Would you think twice about purchasing a … [Read full article]