Computer scientists have developed a way to preserve a network when the fiber is down. The ARROW system reconfigures optical light from a damaged fiber to healthy ones. | Continue reading
Moving to certain locations in the U.S. can have a significant impact on the longevity of senior citizens, according to research co-authored by MIT economist Amy Finkelstein. | Continue reading
MIT researchers suggest a way to protect qubit states using a phenomenon called many-body localization (MBL) — a peculiar phase of matter that is unlike solid or liquid, and never reaches equilibrium. | Continue reading
To mitigate heat waves and climate change, cities can use cool paving materials that reflect more light and emit less heat. Research from the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub finds that cool pavements would reduce Phoenix’s emissions by up to 6%. | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can extract drinkable water directly from the air even in dry regions, using heat from the sun or another source. | Continue reading
A study by MIT and University of Twente researchers involves firing small jets of water through many kinds of droplets, using high-speed cameras to capture each watery impact — similar to the famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold … | Continue reading
An MIT-developed inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control. The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs a fraction of comparable prosthetics. | Continue reading
Researchers are working to adapt the standard lithium-ion battery to make safer, smaller, and lighter versions. An MIT-led study describes an approach that can help researchers consider what materials may work best in their solid-state batteries, while also considering how those … | Continue reading
A new domain-specific artificial intelligence programming language developed at MIT allows for error-free, exact, automatic solutions to hard AI problems — and it’s thousands of times faster than alternatives. The researchers' Sum-Product Probabilistic Language could have us … | Continue reading
After nearly a decade, an interdisciplinary collaboration between MIT's Markus Buehler, Tomas Sacareno, and others to model a 3D spider web has led to many surprising results. | Continue reading
A new algorithm helps drones find the fastest route around obstacles without crashing. The MIT system could enable fast, nimble drones for time-critical operations such as search and rescue. | Continue reading
A team of MIT researchers has developed an immunotherapy strategy that can eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice. The new therapy, a combination of three drugs that boost the body’s immune defenses against tumors, is expected to enter clinical trials later this year. | Continue reading
A new device can detect SARS-CoV-2 from saliva in about an hour. Developed by MIT and Harvard engineers, the diagnostic is just as accurate as PCR tests and can identify Covid-19 variants. | Continue reading
MIT and Ericsson are collaborating to research the next generation of mobile networks. Two projects on the design of state-of-the-art hardware could one day power next-generation 5G and 6G mobile networks. | Continue reading
New MIT research using patent data could help inform decision-makers by predicting which technologies are improving the fastest. | Continue reading
MIT spinoff Infinite Cooling aims to reduce power plants’ significant water needs and to shrink the huge plumes of water vapor produced by their cooling towers. At-scale prototypes tested on MIT facilities have proven effective. | Continue reading
MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type of superconductivity in a material called “magic-angle” twisted trilayer graphene. They report that the material exhibits superconductivity at surprisingly high magnetic fields of up to 10 Tesla, which is three times higher than w … | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) created a new method to computationally optimize the shape and control of a robotic manipulator for a specific task. | Continue reading
A human-aware motion planning algorithm from MIT CSAIL addresses the safety gap in collaboration between robots and humans, enabling robots to assist with dressing, for example. | Continue reading
After overseeing three years of research and development, MIT Senior Research Scientist Brian LaBombard is ready to test a superconducting toroidal field model coil (TFMC), a prototype for those that will be used in the SPARC fusion experiment. | Continue reading
A summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from Spring 2020 to Summer 2021. | Continue reading
MIT engineers have created a nanoparticle for cancer diagnosis that can reveal the presence of cancerous proteins through a urine test, and can also function as an imaging agent, pinpointing the tumor location. | Continue reading
MIT physicists have brought a human-scale object to a near-standstill, close to a quantum state | Continue reading
RightHand Robotics, co-founded by MIT alumnus Lael Odhner, combines machine vision with an intelligent gripper design to offer robots that are more adaptable and reliable in warehouse environments. | Continue reading
MIT neuroscientists uncovered a common neural mechanism for cognitive impairments seen in some people with autism and schizophrenia, even though the genetic variations that produce the impairments are different for each disorder. | Continue reading
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve off-grid arid coastal are … | Continue reading
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time. | Continue reading
MIT and the U.S. Department of Defense have teamed up to launch a new edX learning platform, manufacturingworkforce.org, as a way to offer cutting-edge manufacturing education and training for more Americans. | Continue reading
MIT and Harvard University announced a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company. 2U will transfer $800 million to a nonprofit organization, … | Continue reading
Engineers at MIT and Harvard have designed a prototype face mask that can diagnose the person wearing the mask with Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. The technology can also be used to design wearable sensors for a variety of other pathogens or toxic chemicals. | Continue reading
MIT researchers have run a comparison of the four largest global satellite meganetwork proposals, from SpaceX, Telesat, OneWeb, and Amazon. They found that each network, which would comprise thousands of satellites, could beam down tens of terabits per second, filling gaps left b … | Continue reading
MIT biological engineers have demonstrated a way to easily retrieve data files stored as DNA. This could be a step toward using DNA archives to store enormous quantities of photos, images, and other digital content. | Continue reading
MIT engineers discovered a way to generate electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create an electric current simply by interacting with an organic solvent in which they’re floating. | Continue reading
MIT researchers have created the first fabric-fiber to have digital capabilities, ready to collect, store and analyze data using a neural network. | Continue reading
MIT alumnus Yichen Shen PhD '16 is the CEO of Lightelligence, an MIT spinout using photonics to reinvent computing for artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
MIT and University of Muenster researchers have enhanced ion diffusion by selectively heating specific phonons without heating the entire material. The new method could lead to low-cost fuel cells and batteries in addition to a new field of research using phonon catalysis. | Continue reading
MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers built the Reconnaissance of Influence Operations (RIO) system, which automatically detects and analyzes social media accounts that are spreading disinformation. | Continue reading
Students in MIT course 21L.434 (21st Century Science Fiction) discover that the world-making of science fiction is not only a way to envision possible futures but powerful way to think about and understand the world we currently inhabit. | Continue reading
Attempting to politely correct misinformation on Twitter can have negative consequences, leading to even less-accurate tweets and more toxicity from the people being corrected, according to a study co-authored by MIT scholars. | Continue reading
The 2021 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition grand prize went to Osmoses, a startup trying to improve chemical separations with a new molecular membrane filtration technology. | Continue reading
Countries and U.S. states more predisposed to collectivist behavior have more people following mask guidelines during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study co-authored by MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Jackson Lu. | Continue reading
DELPHI, an artificial intelligence framework built by MIT Media Lab researchers, can give an “early-alert” signal for future high-impact technologies by learning from patterns gleaned from previous scientific publications. | Continue reading
A new machine learning system from MIT uses probabilistic programming to clean dirty datasets, filling in blank cells accurately and quickly. Because it’s Bayesian, the artificial intelligence system can also tell you how confident it is in its answers. | Continue reading
ChromoUpdate is an MIT-developed “programmable matter” technique to quickly change objects’ color. The method uses light to alter the saturation of photochromatic ink on an item’s surface and could give product designers a boost in churning out prototypes. | Continue reading
China recently imposed a mandate on automakers requiring that electric vehicles (EVs) make up 40 percent of all sales by 2030. An MIT study finds the cost will be substantial. | Continue reading
The radar dome, or "radome," atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building was saved from demolition by the MIT Radio Society, which had found creative new uses for it, like bouncing radio signals off the moon. | Continue reading
MIT researchers developed a machine-learning technique that uses an image to estimate the stresses and strains acting on a material. The advance could accelerate engineers’ design process by eliminating the need to solve complex equations. | Continue reading
A study to assess how ride-sharing impacts urban mobility in the United States found ride-sharing increased both intensity and duration of road congestion while there was no significant change in private vehicle ownership. | Continue reading