MIT has a plan to examine spit for COVID
As with so much else these days, COVID-19 is driving a lot of stuff in the technology space. Even if you’ve not undergone a COVID …
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New material looks like Chex, is stronger than Kevlar
An insanely strong new nanomaterial could replace steel and Kevlar in surface coatings. The material, created by researchers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich, is …
Watch these wild self-assembling blocks move by themselves
We first saw these little blocks a few years ago but the 2.0 version, called M-Blocks 2.0, are a sigh to behold. Created by CSAIL …
Researchers are letting robots push them around
MIT researchers are creating a data set of reactions designed to tell robots how various objects react to pushing. The goal? To train future robots …
MIT researchers make a material that can be none more black
Move over, vantablack. MIT researchers have accidentally created a material that captures more than 99.995 percent of light. It’s made of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes …