Some of the best designs that man has conjured up through the ages have been inspired by evolution, and it is no shame in taking a cue from what evolution has perfected...

Cowboys are famous for their rough-n-tough macho lifestyles. However, their seemingly adventurous lifestyle may have many sorrows of its own - the loss of the cattle...

MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) scientists have recently managed to create a 3D image of a living cell! The method is similar to the xray CT scan technology...

To supporters, Aafia Siddiqui is a devout Muslim, a scholar educated at MIT and Brandeis, who fled to Pakistan after 9/11 because of anti-Muslim sentiment.

Could viruses be put to a better use, instead devising plots to ransack the usable? What about using them to fashion microscopic batteries? As per The Proceedings of...

A federal judge has lifted a gag order on three MIT students who were barred from talking publicly about security flaws they discovered in the Boston transit...

While this will not exactly be a ‘refrigerator’ in the conventional sense of the word, it will be a gadget that will be of major help to a developing economy like...

MIT chemistry professor Daniel Nocera and his team of researchers say that a catalyst used in coincidence with cheap photovoltaic solar panels, could lead to...

Usually solar energy is only associated with daytime application. Though there are options of storing this energy for utilizing later through the day, it doesn’t...

Few years down the line you wouldn’t imagine army personnel dressed in green camouflage suits. It could just be sturdy fish scales. Now this is completely out of the...

It’s always sensible to fix your habits lest you fall prey to them. Don’t misunderstand this to be a piece of advice you never wanted; it’s attested by iShoe...

It will come as absolutely no new news to you when I tell you that one of the major hurdles solar energy faces in being a major player in the energy resource field is...

Researchers at MIT have revealed achievements of achieving finer patterns of lines in chips and other electronic devices. What is seen as a major advance in Nanoscale...

Amazonian tribe has no word to express ‘one,’ other numbers An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of...

Engineers teaming up with biologists to develop robots that are inspired by nature (animals and insects) is a wonderful trend that has taken the field up by storm....

As opposed to traditional sculptures which are always static, the Cloud, is a responsive sculpture that interacts with people and gives feedback through sound and...

Joseph DeSimone’s expertise in chemistry has yielded advances in environmentally sensitive plastics manufacturing, medical devices for blocked coronary arteries...

In case you thought solar energy was the lamest and the slowest kind of green power ever, think again. Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have...

Researchers at MIT believe they’ve discovered a new weapon in the battle against tuberculosis: Free cell phone minutes.For years, doctors have struggled to get...