Engineers design a new weapon against bacteria
Antimicrobial peptides can kill strains resistant to existing antibiotics.
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Electric motors find new roles in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids
James Kirtley discusses the transition from gas to electric motors and the impact these motors have had on modern technologies.
Monitoring Parkinson’s symptoms at home
Keyboard-monitoring technique can detect motor difficulties as patients type.
For first time, researchers see individual atoms keep away from each other or bunch up as pairs
Observations of atomic interactions could help pave way to room-temperature superconductors.
Recording analog memories in human cells
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.
Toward practical quantum computers
Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.
What’s wasting power at home? Ask your app!
New system from MIT can identify how much power is being used by each device in a household.
Scientists program cells to remember and respond to series of stimuli
New approach to biological circuit design enables scientists to track cell histories.
New mid-infrared laser system could detect atmospheric chemicals
Laser pulses produce glowing plasma filaments in open air, could enable long-distance monitoring.
New approach to microlasers
Technique for “phase locking” arrays of tiny lasers could lead to terahertz security scanners.
New method snips complex fibers into uniform particles
Stretching process can produce nanoscale rods or strips made of many material combinations.
Light can “heal” defects in some solar cells
Defects in some new electronic materials can be removed by making ions move under illumination.
Speedy terahertz-based system could detect explosives
Spectroscopic system with chip-scale lasers cuts detection time from minutes to microseconds.
New approach to sorting cells
Microfluidic device distinguishes cells based on how they respond to acoustic vibrations.