Home > Extreme MIT stacks solar panels like pancakes, increases their power output by up to 20x What's better than one pancake? A whole stack of pancakes! Using the same logic, a team of MIT ...

Active Surfaces founders, including Shiva Bhakta (on right) and Richard Swartout, (second from left) with summer interns from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Photo: MIT $100K Entrepreneurship ...

Thanks to a groundbreaking solar-powered desalination system developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, more communities could soon have access to cheap, clean drinking water.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Six years ago, an MIT engineering team at the university’s ...

Solar cell technology is a seen as a key pillar in our transition to cleaner forms of energy, but within this field there is all kinds of room for experimentation. Solar cells that are thin and ...

A new study out of MIT has created an autonomously functioning robot that can act like a lab technician to test materials, in particular for the properties needed to make solar cells. It can collect ...

Forward-looking: A new chapter in materials science is unfolding at MIT, where researchers have developed a fully autonomous robotic system designed to accelerate the search for advanced ...

This account does break down a common solar panel myth. Expert sets record straight on what really happens to solar panels ...

MIT researchers developed a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, flexible, durable, lightweight solar cells that can be stuck to any surface. Glued to high-strength fabric, the solar ...