Cambridge Science & Technology News

The brainiacs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to make another piece of Star Trek fantasy –“the Food replicator” a reality. Couch potatoes probably remember that Star Trek characters had devices called replicators in their quarters that could...

The aim of the Ig Nobel prize is to award those people who come up with a research or invention who first makes people laugh and then makes them think. So it was, Catherine Douglas from UK was awarded the...

Now you can get free quality education from one of the world's top ranking university Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT launch OpenCourseWare (OCW) which is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available...

Cambridge, Massachusetts' Draper Laboratory has developed a special tattoo ink that changes colors based on a person's blood sugar levels. The ink was first developed to keep tabs on heart health and electrolyte levels in athletes but after the process...

A team led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students last week successfully tested a prototype of what it says may be the "most cost-efficient solar-power system in the world," revolutionizing global energy production. The 12-feet-wide dish, made of a lightweight...

Researchers at MIT may have found a new way to create energy that mimics the photosynthesis process of plants. Professor Daniel G. Nocera of chemistry and former MIT graduate student Alan F. Heyduk have invented a compund that produces hydrogen...

Research by MIT biologist Robert Weinberg indicates that a mechanism in which tumor cells transform and reform secondary tumors can cause dedifferentiation in adult cells. The process is known as epithelial to mesenchymal transition, or EMT, and involves epithelial cells...

I suppose not many know who Edward Lorenz is, he wrote computer programs to try and predict the weather, and in 1972 published a paper titled "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado...