Chemical engineers program bacteria to switch between different metabolic pathways, boosting their yield of desirable products. | Continue reading
MIT PhD student George Lordos and his brother Alexandros led the project; goal of the Mars Society competition was to establish a colony on Mars for 1,000 residents. | Continue reading
Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat. | Continue reading
Lam Research Tech Symposium, co-hosted by MIT.nano and Microsystems Technology Lab, explores challenges, opportunities for the future of the industry. | Continue reading
The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air. | Continue reading
Study shows how commuting and other forms of everyday travel help spread mosquito-borne disease in urban settings. | Continue reading
With increasingly advanced data, Michael McDonald and colleagues study a galaxy cluster bursting with new stars. | Continue reading
System from MIT CSAIL sizes up drivers as selfish or selfless. Could this help self-driving cars navigate in traffic? | Continue reading
An improved method for magnet tracking enables high-speed wireless tracking through various materials. | Continue reading
Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses produces a previously unseen phase of matter. | Continue reading
New strategy for encapsulating nutrients makes it easier to fortify foods with iron and vitamin A. | Continue reading
New control system may enable humanoid robots to do heavy lifting and other physically demanding tasks. | Continue reading
Techniques for observing concrete as it sets could facilitate the development of new cements. | Continue reading
In new book, Nobel laureates Banerjee and Duflo examine what we know about the global economy and how to improve it. | Continue reading
Robotic boats could more rapidly locate the most valuable sampling spots in uncharted waters. | Continue reading
An artificial intelligence model developed at MIT shows in striking detail what makes some images stick in our minds. | Continue reading
MIT researchers identify pyrimidine biosynthesis as a target for the treatment of small cell lung cancer. | Continue reading
A low-cost analog circuit based on synchronizing oscillators could scale up quickly and cheaply to beat out digital computers. | Continue reading
Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more. | Continue reading
Passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate away. | Continue reading
Drones can fly at high speeds to a destination while keeping safe “backup” plans if things go awry. | Continue reading
Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer alternative to some industrial plastics. | Continue reading
By sensing tiny changes in shadows, a new system identifies approaching objects that may cause a collision. | Continue reading
Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more. | Continue reading
The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air. | Continue reading
MIT-developed method may lead to portable devices for making the disinfectant on-site where it’s needed. | Continue reading
Engineered signaling pathways could offer a new way to build synthetic biology circuits. | Continue reading
An algorithm speeds up the planning process robots use to adjust their grip on objects, for picking and sorting, or tool use. | Continue reading
Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather than collapsing catastrophically. | Continue reading
Crystallized drug prevents immune system rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cells. | Continue reading
Model could recreate video from motion-blurred images and “corner cameras,” may someday retrieve 3D data from 2D medical images. | Continue reading
Coated pill carries microneedles that deliver insulin and other drugs to the lining of the small intestine. | Continue reading
Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked. | Continue reading
Fluorescent probe could allow scientists to watch circuits within the brain and link their activity to specific behaviors. | Continue reading
Associate Professor Juejun Hu shines a light on the impact machine learning and AI are having on materials science and engineering. | Continue reading
Commercial cloud service providers give artificial intelligence computing at MIT a boost. | Continue reading
Model from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory identifies “serial hijackers” of internet IP addresses. | Continue reading
MIT engineers develop a model that predicts how the cornstarch-water mixture turns from liquid to solid, and back again. | Continue reading
Connected devices can now share position information, even in noisy, GPS-denied areas. | Continue reading
BigSMILES language allows computers and researchers to convey stochastic configurations more clearly. | Continue reading
A 1948 paper by Claude Shannon SM ’37, PhD ’40 created the field of information theory — and set its research agenda for the next 50 years. | Continue reading
New technique stretches out MRI scans of placentas so they can be more accurately analyzed, and shows the potential of MRI for pregnancy monitoring. | Continue reading
Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials. | Continue reading
Data on MIT students underscore the importance of getting enough sleep; bedtime also matters. | Continue reading
Brain and cognitive sciences professor studies how the human mind is able to learn so rapidly. | Continue reading
Algorithm enables one audio signal to glide into another, recreating the “portamento” effect of some musical instruments. | Continue reading
TX-GAIA is tailor-made for crunching through deep neural network operations. | Continue reading
Researchers integrate diamond-based sensing components onto a chip to enable low-cost, high-performance quantum hardware. | Continue reading