MIT Creates Transparent Screens That Are Practical Enough For Everyday Use

A transparent screen might seem to be a far fetched idea even in this technologically advanced age, as the ones that are in the market these days seem to lose out on their practicality. Bigger models tend to be expensive and bulky, while smaller heads-up displays have extremely narrow viewing angles. MIT researchers might have the solution to this issue with their prototype nanoparticle display. The device itself will create color images on a glass surface through the act of ‘tuning’ a silver nanoparticle coating all the way until it lets only certain light wavelengths pass through.

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    Researchers make high energy density battery that runs on sugar

    Battery innovations have promised to change mobile technology for the everyday user, and we’ve seen all sorts related breakthroughs, from the 30-second battery charge to the urine-powered Samsung cell phone. … Continue reading

    Your brain on video games: lucid dreaming, POV changes, resistance to nightmares

    Regular gamers have likely, at one point or another, noticed a pronounced video game-esque feel in a dream here or there, maybe finding themselves caught up in the dream world … Continue reading

    Stay Warm This Winter With A Geothermal Heat Pump For Your Home

    Houses in Winter. Photo courtesy of UIC Digital Collections.Geothermal heat pumps are a cost- and energy-efficient way to stay warm during the long, cold months of winter. They have been around since the late 1940s, but as the technology gets better and the prices continue to fall, they have recently become more popular for home use. Today, about 80,000 geothermal heat pumps are installed per year in the United States.  Here’s how geothermal heat pumps work — and how you can get one for your home.

    This Is How People Thought of Fever Before They Knew What It Was

    This Is How People Thought of Fever Before They Knew What It Was

    Having a fever can be pretty terrible—but imagine having it before there was any cure, when nobody really knew what it was. This picture, from the 18 century, depicts just that.

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    MIT improves solar panel performance using hot carbon nanotubes

    A lot of research is being carried out around the world using carbon nanotubes for various needs. Recently a group of researchers at MIT has been using hot carbon nanotubes … Continue reading

    All the World’s Preventable Disease Outbreaks, Visualized

    All the World's Preventable Disease Outbreaks, Visualized

    Although medical science has advanced immeasurably in the last century, many preventable diseases still claim lives due to ineffective vaccination programs. This map shows when and where that happens.

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    Scientists Discover Water in Stardust and It Suggests We’re Not Alone

    Scientists Discover Water in Stardust and It Suggests We're Not Alone

    Stardust sounds magical enough as it is, but now scientists have for the first time observed that it contains water—which, in turn, could suggest that life is universal.

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    Researchers Experiment With Using A Lettuce As A Wire Replacement

    Researchers Experiment With Using A Lettuce As A Wire ReplacementPlants serve a variety of purposes. They convert carbon dioxide into oxygen for human beings, they act as a source of food for both animals and humans, they even can be used as fertilizer for other plants, and lately it seems that they have even been experimented on where scientists attempt to find out if plants can make a suitable replacement for wires. Wires are typically made from metal, such as copper, which is a scarce material and not exactly one that we can “grow”. Safe to say there will be a point in time where we run out of copper, with estimates that our copper reserve could run out in 25 years. (more…)

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    Why Do Some People Hate Math So Much?

    Some people gobble up algebra and calculus like their life depended on it; others would rather poke pins into their eyes than solve a simultaneous equation. But why is that?

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