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MIT's New Imaging System Takes Movies at the Speed of Light

Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:04 pm PST

This is the age of miracles and wonders. Tonight's case in point: the MIT Media Lab's new imaging system that takes exposures at a trillion frames per second, allowing researchers to actually visualize light traveling through space. Human beings are now looking at photons in motion. Unbelievable. This video shows a ...

Photography, MIT, Light, Photons, Science Fiction

New Battery Design Could Be Breakthrough for Electric Cars

Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:40 pm PDT

Here's some potentially very exciting news from MIT, where a breakthrough in battery design could lead to truly viable electric cars: New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt. A radically new approach to the design of batteries, developed by researchers at MIT, could provide a lightweight and inexpensive ...

Electric Car, Battery, Science, MIT

Idiot of the Day: Lucky She Isn't in the Morgue

Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:00 am PDT

Apparently, being accepted to MIT is no indicator of intelligence: MIT student ‘lucky to be alive’ after fake bomb prank. An MIT student with a fake bomb strapped to her chest was arrested at gunpoint today at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said. Star Simpson, 19, ...

LGF, MIT, Moonbats