An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area…
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Sarah Nyquist, a PhD student in MIT’s Computational and Systems Biology program, applies computational methods to understudied areas of reproductive health, such as the cellular…
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.…
Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures (pictured) may be a promising route to lightweight armor,…
This cut-away rendering of the MIT nuclear battery concept shows important components such as the instrumentation and control module, the reactor, and the power module.…
Algorand uses a unique blockchain architecture developed by MIT Professor Silvio Micali to offer a decentralized, secure, and scalable platform. Algorand uses a unique architecture…
A tunable coupler can switch the qubit-qubit interaction on and off. Unwanted, residual (ZZ) interaction between the two qubits is eliminated by harnessing higher energy…
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…
Staining for RAD51 (bright cyan-colored dot) in a fertilized one-cell mouse embryo shows repair of a CRISPR-induced DNA break. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers.…
Single-cell analysis of autopsy samples from COVID-19 patients shows how the lungs repeatedly tried, and failed, to repair themselves. Scientists from several hospitals and research…
How a pair of MIT Sloan Executive Education alumni translated teachings from an MIT course to operations improvements at Heineken México. It’s no secret that…
The large radio telescope CHIME, pictured here, has detected more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation, MIT researchers report.…
MIT chemists have determined the structure of the complex that forms when gaseous dinitrogen, or N2, binds to an iron-sulfur cluster, offering clues as to…
The high temporal and spatial resolution Raman imaging technique opens opportunities to answer millennia-old questions regarding cement chemistry. This high-resolution Raman image shows the hydration…
MIT chemical engineers have devised a new way to formulate hydrophobic drugs by turning them into a nanoemulsion, which can be poured into a mold…
Boston Micro Fabrication’s machines use a technology co-developed by MIT Professor Nicholas Fang to print millimeter-sized products with details at the micron scale. Credit: courtesy…
Artistic representation of the nanoscopic structure of one of the new MIT nanodevices. Two twisted sheets of graphene are represented by the metallic-blue carbon atoms…
SMART researchers have found that phenomena related to the formation of moiré superlattices observed in two-dimensional systems can be translated to tune optical properties of…
Tactile electronics developed at MIT use a mix of more typical textile fibers alongside a small amount of custom-made functional fibers that sense pressure from…
Around the world and within the U.S., the percentage of people wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic has varied enormously. A new study co-authored by…