Consumer Electronics assembly requires a tremendus amount of manual labor, or highly customzied robotics. This leads to increased cost, assembly time and energy consumption. Researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have come with…
Fungi recycle Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries
Although rechargeable batteries in smartphones, cars and tablets can be charged again and again, they don’t last forever. Old batteries often wind up in landfills or incinerators, potentially harming the environment. And…
Detecting Fake Drugs With A Piece Of Paper. A Paper-based Device spots Degraded Medications
The developing world is awash in substandard, degraded or falsified medications, which can either directly harm users or deprive them of needed treatment. And with internet sales of medications on the rise,…
Edible Food Packaging made from Milk Protein Casein. Now we can Eat the Food Wrappers too
At the grocery store, most foods — meats, breads, cheeses, snacks — come wrapped in plastic packaging. Not only does this create a lot of non-recyclable, non-biodegradable waste, but thin plastic films…
MIT Engineers program Human Cells to store complex Histories in their DNA
MIT biological engineers have devised a way to record complex histories in the DNA of human cells, allowing them to retrieve “memories” of past events, such as inflammation, by sequencing the DNA….