“If you jump onto and then down from a carousel, you can steal energy from the carousel,” says co-author Salvatore Vitale. “These bosons do the…
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A new algorithm offers insights into consumer spending by identifying what someone purchased from only the bill total. At first, it seemed like the algorithm…
The startup OPT Industries began producing nasal swabs to address the shortage as hospitals attempted to ramp up Covid-19 tests. Credit: OPT Industries MIT spinout…
Gene Changes Linked to Severe Repetitive Behaviors Seen in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Drug Addiction
Gene Changes Linked to Severe Repetitive Behaviors Seen in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Drug Addiction
Green fluorescence in a mouse brain highlights clusters of striosomal neurons (yellow arrow) that send distant connections, also green, to cells that produce dopamine in…
Exploring different scenarios and variables in the storage design space, researchers find the parameter combinations for innovative, low-cost long-duration energy storage to potentially make a…
Shooting beams of ions at proton clouds, like throwing nuclear darts at the speed of light, can provide a clearer view of nuclear structure. Credit:…
The newly discovered galaxy cluster CHIPS1911+4455 has a unique twisted shape compared to other rapidly cooling galaxy clusters. This image was taken with the Hubble…
Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be used for solar cells. The high-throughput automated degradation test system monitors…
In this artist’s conception of the polarized view of the black hole in M87, lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the…
In a study of E. coli, MIT researchers discovered that mutations to genes involved in metabolism can also help bacteria to evade the toxic effects…
Clustered fruit fly nurse cells squeeze their contents into a large egg cell. Credit: Jasmin Imran Alsous Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive…
MIT chemists have created a new boron-containing chemical group that is 10,000 times more stable than boron on its own. Credit: MIT News A strategy…
Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how “virtual unfolding” was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from…
These images of “islands” of gold atoms deposited on a layer of two-dimensional molybdenum sulfide were produced by two different modes, using a new scanning…
Insects’ remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard…
Researchers Develop Speedier Network Analysis to Boost Recommendation Algorithms and Internet Search
Researchers Develop Speedier Network Analysis to Boost Recommendation Algorithms and Internet Search
MIT researchers developed software to more efficiently run graph applications on a range of computing hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs.Credit: Istockphoto images edited by…
Andreas Mershin visits with one of the trained disease-sniffing dogs in his office at MIT. The dogs are trained and handled in the UK by…
This image shows perovskite photovoltaics in the background with individual perovskite crystals shown as colorful units. Credit: CUBE3D Graphic Reducing internal losses could pave the…
The ARC Fusion Pilot Plant concept was developed at MIT as a demonstration of the potential of high-temperature superconducting magnets to reduce the cost and…
This illustration of a rocky super-Earth represents the type of planets future telescopes, such as followups to NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS), hope to…