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.
James Kirtley discusses the transition from gas to electric motors and the impact these motors have had on modern technologies.
Keyboard-monitoring technique can detect motor difficulties as patients type.
Observations of atomic interactions could help pave way to room-temperature superconductors.
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.
Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.
New system from MIT can identify how much power is being used by each device in a household.
System would use microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies.
New approach to biological circuit design enables scientists to track cell histories.
Professor emeritus helped launch field of information theory and developed early time-sharing computers.
Laser pulses produce glowing plasma filaments in open air, could enable long-distance monitoring.
New analog compiler could help enable simulation of whole organs and even organisms.
Technique for “phase locking” arrays of tiny lasers could lead to terahertz security scanners.
Stretching process can produce nanoscale rods or strips made of many material combinations.
Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells.
Defects in some new electronic materials can be removed by making ions move under illumination.