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New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
MIT engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals and could reduce the bulk of…
MIT engineers print synthetic “metamaterials” that are both strong and stretchy
In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.”
Immune system warriors predict the future of autoimmune blood vessel disease
Neutrophils, one of the immune system’s warriors, thought to be all the same, turn out to be diverse.
“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or…
Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces.
A Colloidal Crystal Model for Controlled Polymorph Selection
Researchers at Tohoku University took a deep dive into using colloidal crystallization as a model system to figure…
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Oils, fats innovation: use of nanotechnology in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals
The use of oils and fats has been successfully diversified, resulting in an innovation formulated through nanotechnology that is beneficial to pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries. A Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) lecturer, Professor Dr Mahiran Basri, not only succeeded in producing new useful substances made of oils and fats for the industry, but […]
14th Annual Field Course in Conservation Biology & Global Health: At the Human-Environment Interface
Kathmandu– A Training Program for University Students, Journalists, National Park Staff and Professionals has been organized by Nepal Biodiversity Research Society (NEBORS), Kathmandu and University of Washington (UW) Seattle, Washington, USA…
University of Malaya’s Professor awarded the 2014 TWAS Celso Furtado Prize
University of Malaya’s Professor Rajah Rasiah was awarded the 2014 Celso Furtado Prize in Social Sciences by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). This was in recognition of his pioneering…
$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development
Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China. (Cambridge, MA) — MIT has received one of the largest gifts in its history, from alumnus Samuel…