TECH & INNOVATION

MIT IDEAS Challenge Showcase Continues to Pump Out World Changing Ideas

TECH & INNOVATION 05.01.2019 08:49 AM

Ten student teams receive $100,000 in combined awards to pursue their impact-driven projects. 2019 marks the 18th year of IDEAS. Since its inception, the program has awarded more than 1 million dollars to 160 social ventures operating in 44 different countries.

Intelligent Agencies Can Now Use Handshakes to Detect Spies

05.01.2019 08:46 AM

Handshake-style encryption to be used for time-delayed digital communications such as email, a challenge once believed to be impossible

Turning Sewage Into Potable Water

04.30.2019 16:58 PM

An shocking 783 million people are living without clean water and 2.5 billion don't have adequate sanitation. Studies reveal this is the main cause for around 700,000 children death every year. Providing a septic and sewer systems needs good infrastructure, time and plenty of energy. Under the circumstances, these cannot be maintained effectively in developing countries.

Filipino Professor Unlocks the Secret to a Pain-free Life

04.30.2019 06:59 AM

The pain passes within 8 minutes—no pills, no injections. With the development of the natural biomagnetic method by a Filipino professor came the long-awaited breakthrough in the fight against pain.

Yarn-like Nanofibers Could Assist in the Healing of Tendons and Muscles

04.30.2019 06:56 AM

MIT engineers have developed tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing.

Scientists Designed DNA That Folds into a Smart Nanocapsule for Drug Delivery

04.29.2019 11:48 AM

Now it is possible to load and pack the nanocapsule with several cargoes, closed for delivery and opened again through a subtle pH increase

Alzheimer’s Disease Detection Video Game Is Showing Promise

04.28.2019 14:30 PM

A new virtual reality video game developed to detect Alzheimer’s is working. When most people think of Alzheimer's disease they think of an illness that impairs a person's memory.

Scientists Discovered a New Way to Boost Photonic Quantum Memories Efficiency to Over 85%

04.28.2019 07:12 AM

The discovery brought the dream of a ‘universal’ quantum computer a step closer to reality Similar to memories in computers, quantum memories are essential components for quantum computers, a new generation of data processors that obey quantum mechanics laws and can overcome the limitations of classical computers.

The Dead Could Outnumber the Living on Facebook by 2070

04.27.2019 13:56 PM

The number of dead users could increase to 4.9 billion before the end of the century Academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a section of the University of Oxford, have made a recent analysis that predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a drift that will have severe consequences on how we handle our digital heritage in the future.

Virtual Assistants Will Soon Take Human Form

04.26.2019 07:29 AM

When we queue up future virtual assistants to get advice on how we should dress for the day’s weather or which route to work will be quickest, the answers may soon look like they’re coming from a living, breathing human being thanks to advanced digital rendering techniques.

Autonomous Robot Navigates Heart to Assist in Cardiac Surgery

04.26.2019 07:27 AM

Surgeons could be assisted in the operating theatre by medical robots following the first demonstration of a robot that can navigate autonomously inside the body.

A Decoder to Turn Brain Activity Into Speech

04.25.2019 14:20 PM

Technology could in effect give voice back to people with conditions such as Parkinson’s For people who have lost their voice through paralysis and conditions such as throat cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease, there may just be hope to regain what they've lost.