New hybrid gas-to-electric drones from MIT spinout Top Flight Technologies offer an order-of-magnitude increase in range, payload size, and power over battery-powered counterparts. The drones may pave the way for package delivery…
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IBM Achieves the World’s Highest Areal Recording Density for Magnetic Tape Storage
Research scientists have achieved a new world record in tape storage – their fifth since 2006. The new record of 201 Gb/in2 (gigabits per square inch) in areal density was achieved on a…
Solar Glasses Generate Solar Power
Organic solar cells are flexible, transparent, and light-weight – and can be manufactured in arbitrary shapes or colors. Thus, they are suitable for a variety of applications that cannot be realized with…
MIT’s Kino provides Kinetic, “living” jewelry for dynamic fashion
MIT’s Kino project explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the body. Engineered with the functionality of miniaturized…
Facts about Graphene
What is Graphene? Graphene is amazing. It’s the strongest material in the world. It’s completely flexible, and it’s more conductive than copper. Graphene is a two-dimensional honeycomb arrangement of carbon atoms that…