New research at MIT shows that vibrations of the protein spikes on coronaviruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, play a crucial part in allowing…
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A rendering of Oklo’s first nuclear power plant, dubbed the Aurora, that will be built at the Idaho National Laboratory. Credit: Courtesy of Oklo Oklo’s…
An MIT-led team simulated the behavior of protons and neutrons in several types of atomic nuclei, finding that the formulas describing how atoms behave in…
This illustration shows the five-helix bundle of the SARS-CoV-2 envelope protein E with a gray water column inside. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers The…
Caption:The Pandemic Response CoLab recently announced the winners of its global “Re-imagining face coverings and PPE challenge.” Credit: MIT Three most promising PPE solutions selected…
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…
David Fischer sits beside the experiment’s vacuum chamber (illuminated in blue), where the high temperature superconductor tapes will be mounted for proton irradiation and in…
Caption:With the global spread of Covid-19, medical mask production workers organize masks. A new NSF-funded project is developing a model to help manufacturers pivot and…
Fiber optics couple laser light directly into the ion-trap chip. When in use, the chip is cooled to cryogenic temperatures in a vacuum chamber, and…
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a terahertz quantum cascade laser (QCL) device. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers The instrument could bring powerful sensing…
Immuneering develops drugs to bind to disease pathways and silence them. Credit: Immuneering Immuneering uses bioinformatics to develop new medicines while also helping large pharmaceutical…
Interventions limiting superspreading may be particularly effective at controlling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 superspreading events. Credit: Equinox…
Artist’s impression of a magnetar in outburst, showing complex magnetic field structure and beamed emission, here imagined as following a crust cracking episode. Credit: McGill…
MIT researchers have built a battery-free pinpointing system dubbed Underwater Backscatter Localization (UBL). This photo shows the battery-free sensor encapsulated in a polymer before it…
The virtual Starr Forum, “Democracies on the Rocks?” included experts discussing the fate of democracy in the United States and around the world. Clockwise from…
“As we age, it’s harder to have a get-up-and-go attitude toward things,” says study author Ann Graybiel. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Research on mice suggests…
Professor Haoxiang Zhu’s research has gained an audience beyond academia, reaching the finance industry and its regulators. Financial markets are fast-moving, complex, and opaque. Even…
A team of researchers from MIT now hopes to go one step further than conventional masks that filter out viruses and create a mask that…
A new book co-authored by MIT engineers Julie Shah and Laura Major SM ’05 explores a future populated with robot helpers. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT…
In developing a system to help decipher lost languages, MIT researchers studied the language of Ugaritic, which is related to Hebrew and has previously been…