- MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaborationEach year, two longstanding D-Lab courses make their mark on students and communities around the world.
- New fuel cell could enable electric aviationThese devices could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries, offering a lightweight option for powering trucks, planes, or ships.
- MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaborationEach year, two longstanding D-Lab courses make their mark on students and communities around the world.
- New fuel cell could enable electric aviationThese devices could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries, offering a lightweight option for powering trucks, planes, or ships.
- Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacityMIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.
- The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturingMIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing extends a deep Institute legacy of expanding US growth and jobs through industrial production.
- MIT announces the Initiative for New ManufacturingThe Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors.
- Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answerA large impact could have briefly amplified the moon’s weak magnetic field, creating a momentary spike that was recorded in some lunar rocks.
- A magnetic pull toward materialsMIT senior Maria Aguiar loves everything about materials science — but has a soft spot for garnet thin films, the focus of her undergraduate research.
- A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energyMIT researchers’ new membrane separates different types of fuel based on their molecular size, eliminating the need for energy-intensive crude oil distillation.
- MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that’s also a magnetThe “one-of-a-kind” phenomenon was observed in ordinary graphite.
- Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regionsGround-level ozone in North America and Western Europe may become less sensitive to cutting NOx emissions. The opposite may occur in Northeast Asia.
- AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human interventionThis new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.
- A new technology for extending the shelf life of produceResearchers used microneedles to inject fresh-cut crops with melatonin and delay spoilage.
- Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steelAllium Engineering, founded by two MIT alumni, has developed a process for improving steel rebar to triple the lifetime of bridges and other infrastructure.
- How to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversionToday’s carbon capture systems suffer a tradeoff between efficient capture and release, but a new approach developed at MIT can boost overall efficiency.
- Technique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental stateThe method could help predict whether immunotherapies will work in a patient or how a tumor will respond to drug treatment.
- Scientists discover potential new targets for Alzheimer’s drugsPathways involved in DNA repair and other cellular functions could contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s.
- Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenesThe color-correcting tool, known as “SeaSplat,” reveals more realistic colors of underwater features.
- Study in India shows several tactics together boost vaccination against deadly diseasesOne combination of methods led to a 44 percent increase in child immunizations.
- Usha Lee McFarling named director of the Knight Science Journalism ProgramMcFarling, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and national science correspondent for STAT, was a 1992-93 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
- With AI, researchers predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cellTrained with a joint understanding of protein and cell behavior, the model could help with diagnosing disease and developing new drugs.
