Collaborate Disseminate
We ogle images of gorgeous star-forming nebula from afar, but it’s tougher to reconstruct the nebula that formed our own cosmic hood. Continue reading Divining a New Solar System Timeline from Rocks Older than Earth
Researchers have seen a baryon decay for the first time, which may help explain why there is far more matter than anti-matter in the universe. Continue reading New LHC Experiments May Help Explain What Happened to All the Antimatter
Welcome to Battlecode. Continue reading MIT Grooms Tomorrow’s AI Developers by Making Them Battle Each Other
Researchers from MIT CSAIL are using artificial intelligence to translate how people feel when they talk. The post MIT Made a Wearable That Knows How a Conversation’s Going appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading MIT Made a Wearable That Knows How a Conversation’s Going
To a casual observer it might seem as though our community is in the news rather a lot at the moment. It’s all about hacks on our TV screens in the soap opera of Washington politics, who hacked this, whether those people over there helped that lot hack the other lot, or even whether that person’s emails could have been hacked on that server. Keeping up with it as an outsider can become a full-time job.
Of course, as we all know even if the mainstream journalists (or should I refer to them colloquially as “hacks”?) don’t, it’s not us …read more
It’s made of 3D printed graphene, the ultra-strong and lightweight carbon nanomaterial. And it could be great for building stuff in space. Continue reading One of the World’s Strongest Materials Looks Like a Chunk of Coral
If only we had affordable artificial muscles, we might see rapid advances in prosthetic limbs, robots, exo-skeletons, implants, and more. With cost being one of the major barriers — in addition to replicating the marvel of our musculature that many of us take for granted — a workable solution seems a way off. A team of researchers at MIT present a potential answer to these problems by showing nylon fibres can be used as synthetic muscles.
Some polymer fibre materials have the curious property of increasing in diameter while decreasing in length when heated. Taking advantage of this, the team …read more
Continue reading Nylon Fibre Artificial Muscles — Powered by Lasers!
Wireless VR prototype uses millimeter wave technology to move the necessary amounts of heavy data. Continue reading Virtual Reality’s Next Big Thing Could Be Wireless Tech
You’ve got no strings to hold you down. The post MIT’s Brilliant Trick to Make VR Go Wireless appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading MIT’s Brilliant Trick to Make VR Go Wireless
