A new way to build membranes for fuel cells
Layer-by-layer assembly system could lead to improved fuel cells, batteries and solar panels
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Power from motion and vibrations
Forget about batteries. The ability to harness electricity from tiny vibrations could power a new generation of electronic devices.
Self-powered sensors
Harvesting electricity from small temperature differences could enable a new generation of electronic devices that don’t need batteries
A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
Though widely seen as a failure, December’s climate conference may actually have set the world on the right path, panelists suggest
CRTs going down the tubes? Hardly
Surprisingly, old-style television sets and computer screens are still in demand — to make new TV sets
Peering inside an artificial sun
Techniques developed by MIT center provide detailed images from the inside of hellishly hot core of advanced fusion experiments
Power from down under
Earth’s own heat could provide vast amounts of clean electricity, and current MIT research could help make it feasible
Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion
Tests on a machine that mimics a planet’s magnetic field show that it may offer an ‘alternative path’ to taming nuclear fusion for power generation.
Three professors win top national early-career honors
Presidential awards to Buehler, Dawson and Sheffield were presented this week at a White House ceremony
Figuring out where to put the carbon
If we plan to keep using fossil fuels, we need to figure out how to sequester the resulting carbon dioxide. New tools from MIT could help evaluate where to do it — and how to keep it contained.
Closing in on dark matter?
Physicists detect two candidate dark matter interactions, but say the data are not conclusive.
Reporter’s Notebook: How to spur energy storage innovations
Proposed X-Prizes for energy storage could produce key enabling technologies to make renewable energy development more practical
MIT’s big wheel in Copenhagen
New bicycle wheel not only boosts power, but also can keep track of friends, fitness, smog and traffic
‘Micro-ants’: Tiny conveyor belts for the 21st century
A new method of moving tiny particles using magnetic polymer beads and magnetic fields could find uses in microchips and in medicine
The 'sci' behind the 'fi'
A public television program explores the ways real science is starting to catch up with the futuristic visions in Star Trek.