This post comes from my newsletter, Startup Strategies. Startups, at their core, are hypothesis testing machines. You have an idea—Fitbit for dogs—and you build a prototype. It flops and you pivot, maybe creating a health monitor for pooches. Pivot. Then…
An insanely strong new nanomaterial could replace steel and Kevlar in surface coatings. The material, created by researchers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich, is nano architected which means it is a “precisely patterned nanoscale structure” that looks like a…
As if robots weren’t weird enough, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and at the University of Boulder in Colorado have created a jointed robot that has no bulky components and connectors. Instead, the system uses hydraulics…
Piecing together history from shards is hard. Now robots can make it easier.…
We first saw these little blocks a few years ago but the 2.0 version, called M-Blocks 2.0, are a sigh to behold. Created by CSAIL at MIT, the blocks work as a sort of hive-mind, reorganizing themselves in real time…
NASA is streaming the first all-woman spacewalk on YouTube. The big walk has already happened – you can scroll back and see the Earth in all its global glory near the beginning of the video – but the rest of…
Augmented reality is nothing really new, although it isn’t widespread yet. Think of it as using a camera on a phone to capture the real world, and using the screen of the phone to insert a virtual object into that…
Move over, vantablack. MIT researchers have accidentally created a material that captures more than 99.995 percent of light. It’s made of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes that were originally to be applied to electrically conductive materials in order to improve their…
New research in Psychological Science has found that votes create “false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs.” “In highly emotional, partisan political contests, such as the 2020 US Presidential election, voters…
A new study led by University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics student, Alexandra Vtyurina, who collaborated with Microsoft researchers has created a way to merge a voice assistant with a web browser to allow the visually impaired to surf the…