Watch Thousands of ‘Hacked’ Silkworms at MIT Create a Giant Dome A group at MIT have used silkworms to build a giant dome, or what researchers call a “biological swarm approach to 3-D printing.” Read more More
MIT’s Green Building Lit Like American Flag After Boston Bombing After the Boston Marathon bombing, MIT’s Green Building paid tribute to the victims with this American flag scheme. Check out BAM’s LED display too. Read more More
LiquiGlide: Banging on Ketchup Bottles May Be a Thing of the Past Science! Watch this new LiquiGlide lubricant in action! But this isn’t just a condiment vanity project — there are some serious real-world applications to this. Read more More
Brilliant MIT Physicist May Be the Dumbest Sex Offender Ever By most people’s definition, Yaron Segel, an MIT researcher, is not a stupid person. Yet the Israeli-born physicist, 30, was easily nabbed by the Feds after arranging sex with who he thought was a mother and her two children. Read more More
Femto-Photography: Capturing the Speed of Light on Camera Researchers at M.I.T’s Media lab have created a camera that can capture the speed of light, acquiring visual data in less than two-trillionths of a second. They call the technique “femto-photography.” Read more More
Photo Aggregating Site Pixable Rolls Out Twitter Integration Pixable, a web app that aggregates a user’s photos from friends and followers across various social networks, has announced the integration of Twitter into their service. This is a major coup for the two-year-old company. Read more More
VIDEO: The Connected States of America The Connected States of America is a data visualization project between MIT and AT&T which maps out connected communities based on anonymized mobile phone data. So fascinating! Read more More