MIT neuroscientists have identified a “landmark code” that helps the brain navigate our surroundings. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Neuroscientists discover how a key brain region…
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An artist’s impression of the star with its tidally locked red dwarf companion. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC) A star that pulses on just one…
Architect’s rendering shows the new mass-timber residential building that will soon begin construction in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Credit: Generate Architecture and Technologies A five-story mixed-use…
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms. Credit: Felice Frankel Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard…
Beams of circularly polarized light (shown as blue spirals) can have two different mirror-image orientations, as shown here. When these beams strike a sheet of…
MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of water monitoring for trace metal contaminants, particularly in resource-constrained regions.…
Matthew Shoulders. Credit: Gretchen Ertl Matt Shoulders investigates how proteins assume their shape and hopes to shed light on diseases linked to flawed protein folding.…
MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound using a machine-learning algorithm. A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many…
MIT researchers’ millimeter-sized ID chip integrates a cryptographic processor, an antenna array that transmits data in the high terahertz range, and photovoltaic diodes for power.…
MIT researchers identify security vulnerabilities in voting app. Credit: MIT Mobile voting application could allow hackers to alter individual votes and may pose privacy issues…
MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid, taking into account an…
In a diamond crystal, three carbon atom nuclei (shown in blue) surround an empty spot called a nitrogen vacancy center, which behaves much like a…
Study finds Earth’s oceans contain just the right amount of iron; adding more may not improve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Historically, the oceans…
A new disposable, affordable “smart” diaper embedded with an RFID tag is designed by MIT researchers to sense and communicate wetness to a nearby RFID…
A physics-based analysis of U.S. elections finds that the electorate has become more polarized over time, leading to an unstable situation in which very small…
Researchers from MIT, Google, and elsewhere have designed a novel method for verifying when quantum processors have accurately performed complex computations that classical computers can’t.…
MIT postdoc Jeonyoo Lee. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT A New Approach to Making Airplane Parts, Minus the Massive Infrastructure A modern airplane’s fuselage is made…
Using mathematical theory, Virginia Williams coaxes algorithms to run faster or proves they’ve hit their maximum speed. Each semester, Associate Professor Virginia Vassilevska Williams tries…
MIT researchers have built a new benchmark tool that can accurately predict how long it takes given code to execute on a computer chip, which…