Inventions

A new portable unit from MIT researchers could make it much easier to remove salt from water to create drinking water.

The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.

Batteries have a limit to how small they can be made, and they need to be charged. What if you could power your own medical device?

An algae-powered computer demonstrates a sustainable, reliable way we could power small IoT devices in the future.

A device that gets electricity to flow through a superconductor in one direction without the use of magnets could revolutionize electronics.

Solar panels and battery storage can generate renewable power when solar energy is at its peak during the day and then release it as needed.

A former NASA scientist has co-developed a pair of glasses designed to prevent myopia by glowing in a precise wavelength of visible light.

Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter's invisibility cloak a reality.

The flexible, thin-film device has the potential to make any surface into a low-power, high-quality audio source.

Graphene is a lattice of carbon atoms arranged in a chicken-wire formation, a structure that makes it very useful for a range of uses.