Friday, May 17, 2013 - 11:36am
If you don't mind a garden that requires a microscope to be seen, these 'flowers' will grow themselves
Harvard stories
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 11:14am
Harvard has successfully demonstrated a collective of quarter-sized robots that operate with "swarming" behaviors — such as formation, control and synchronization. Once activated, they are autonomous and do not require human interaction to control their activity.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 1:55pm
You and I may consider it cheating, but Harvard's Robert Wood and his team have slapped a bunch of tiny actuators onto pieces of origami paper and have taught it to bend itself into different shapes. What could that even be good for, though?
Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 10:16am
Jeez, wouldn't it be fun to have your own swarm of robot bees? Someone at Harvard thought so, convincing the National Science Foundation to pony up $10 million for the development of a whole colony full of wing-flapping bee bots....
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 1:06am
An Illinois doctor won the Public Health section of the IgNobel awards at Harvard University last night, for her invention of a bra that converts into two gas masks. Organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the gongs are...
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 1:22am
How does the idea of chocolate that you inhale sound to you? I find it a bit weird but, if Harvard professor David Edwards has got anything to do with it, breathable food could be a way of eating everything...
Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 7:52am
Apple fans mourned Thursday when Think Secret, one of the Internet's most popular Apple rumormongering websites, agreed to shut down in a legal settlement of an Apple-filed lawsuit from 2005. In exchange for shutting down, the site's owner Nick...
