Your laptop is an incredible device that can do almost anything. You can browse the web, communicate, manage your data, and so much more — but there’s something missing. Sometimes, our laptops…
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MIT Researchers find a way to make Pesticides stick to Leaves instead of bouncing off
When farmers spray their fields with pesticides or other treatments, only 2 percent of the spray sticks to the plants. A significant portion of it typically bounces right off the plants, lands…
Inferring urban travel patterns from cellphone data. Big-data analysis may replace commuter Surveys
In making decisions about infrastructure development and resource allocation, city planners rely on models of how people move through their cities, on foot, in cars, and on public transportation. Those models are…
How a New Tandem Solar Cell is at the Forefront of Solar Innovation
The cost of solar power is beginning to reach price parity with cheaper fossil fuel-based electricity in many parts of the world, yet the clean energy source still accounts for slightly more…
4D Printing: 3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to print three-dimensional structures that “remember” their original shapes. Even after being stretched, twisted, and bent at extreme…