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The technology continues to evolve, but 3D printing is still mostly used for creating prototypes or parts that won’t…
Move over, Vantablack. MIT engineers have developed a material they they claim is 10 times blacker than any other to…
Scientists at MIT built a 16-bit microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes and even ran a program on it, a new paper…
The bad news: The European Union is moving forward with its potentially disastrous new Copyright Directive, a law…
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This looks like the kind of thin material you might make a trash bag out of. But that would be a waste because this…
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In the semiconductor industry, size matters — and people are worried that it won’t be able make transistors any…
Space colonization has reached an impasse, for reasons far more fundamental than a lack of money for the Space…
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Some MIT eggheads invented a very impressive and very inexpensive sensor that stands to protect you against anything…
Light the touchpaper and stand well back, because we're about to... make sustainable electricity? That's the idea…
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Our world of amazingly tiny electronics is about to get even tinier. After a decade of research, IBM says it'll…
Researchers in Japan have developed an incredibly thin wire—just half a micrometer in diameter—made from a new…
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