A new generation of prosthetic limbs which will allow the wearer to reach for objects automatically, without thinking – just like a real hand – are to be trialled for the first…
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MOF Water Harvester – Pulling Drinkable Water out of dry Air using the power of the sun
A solar-powered water harvester was constructed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using a special material — a metal-organic framework, or MOF — produced at the University of California, Berkeley. This water…
MIT’s New System “DCP” can 3-D print an Entire Building
The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. Now, MIT researchers are expanding the list…
Scientists unveil CRISPR-based Diagnostic platform “SHERLOCK”
A team of scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and few other Institutes has adapted a CRISPR protein that targets RNA (rather than DNA) as a rapid, inexpensive, highly…
New ‘Spray-On’ Memory Could Turn Everyday Items Into Digital Storage Devices
Researchers at Duke University have developed “spray-on” digital memory using only an aerosol jet printer and nanoparticle inks. And, the researchers demonstrated their new “spray-on” digital memory by programing a simple circuit…