Mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a chip that uses only a small amount of blood drawn from a cancer patient to trap...
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In 2016, an estimated 1.7 million persons will be diagnosed with cancer in the USA. Of these, it is expected that 600,000 will die of the disease. A new...
Optical quantum computers could potentially be used for quantum simulation of highly complex systems, safe data encryption and ultrafast calculation of huge...
Soft robots are able to do a number of different things but they move slowly. Actuators, the artificial muscles for soft robots, usually use pneumatics or...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have an amazing optical, electrical, mechanical and thermal characteristics. Some CNTs are semiconductors while others are conductors...
In what could be the most promising discovery yet in the field of green energy production, the researchers from MIT have uncovered a novel way of generating...