Owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and operated by an independend editorial board, the MIT Technology Review is one of the world’s most respected popular science magazines. Established in 1899, the magazine has been repeatedly voted in the USA as the most reliable source in technology and innovation. When other magazines moved their entire…
A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School used their own, Gömböc-inspired insulin capsule to deliver orally dosed mRNS vaccine, developed by Katalin Karikó and her colleagues. The article (appearing in the journal Matter) reports that experiments with animals are already under way. Katalin Karikó (who regularly plays with her own Herend Gömböc) called oral…
On August 30th 2021, Nature Biotechnology, the world’s leading journal in biomedical engineering published an article, reporting on the progress of the development of the Gömböc-inspired insulin capsule. The article on the discovery of the Gömböc, which appeared in the Mathematical Intelligencer, is cited as the source for the inspiration on the shape of the…
The oral administration of insulin has been a hotly investigated research topic since decades. The main obstacle in administering the drug in pills is that stomach acids brake down the drug before it can take effect. As a recent study in Science claims, a team from MIT and Harvard has now developed a capsule containing a small needle made of compressed insulin, which…
America’s Cup is the world’s oldest and arguably most famous sailing trophy which is awarded to the winner of match races between two sailing yachts. These boats are constructed based on specific, strict rules set separately for each race. In recent times the race was held every 4 years and in 2017 the final match was…
The GRASP laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania is one of the world’s foremost reserach and development centers for helicopter drones. Led by Professor Vijay Kumar, the lab’s team has pioneered, among others, the design of bio-inspired flying robots with collective behavior. Their latest breakthrough is super-stable pico-drone capable of in-flight self-righting, designed by Yash Mulgaonkar. The carbon-fiber composite exoskeleton of the miniature robot was inspired by the Gömböc shape. Although…
