MIT engineers found a way to dramatically improve the signal emitted by fluorescing nanosenors. The researchers showed they could implant sensors as deep as 5.5…
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MIT engineers demonstrated that analog-to-digital converters in smart devices are vulnerable to power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks that hackers use to “eavesdrop” on devices and…
MIT researchers have created a tissue model that allows them model drug delivery to brain tumors. Tumor cells (green) are surrounded by endothelial cells (purple).…
A new MIT-led study suggests that degraded sensory input is beneficial, and necessary, for auditory development. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT, with images from iStockphoto A…
The more infectious form of the yeast Candida albicans is a long filament (shown on the left). MIT researchers have demonstrated that when the yeast…
MIT chemists have used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to reveal how two different forms of the Tau protein mix to form the tangles seen…
MIT engineers have created a reconfigurable AI chip that comprises alternating layers of sensing and processing elements that can communicate with each other. Credit: Figure…
In this image, A control group of yeast cells (top row) is compared to yeast cells after they have accumulated lead from contaminated water (bottom…
Microscope photograph of a lower arc crustal rock used in the study showing minerals of garnet (red) and clinopyroxene (green). Credit: Courtesy of the researchers…
Founded by Julia Somerdin in 2017, the startup Labby has created MilKey, a way to help dairy farmers monitor the health of their cows. Credit:…
Researchers have created a technique that boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell, a ubiquitous programming environment created 50 years ago,…
Scientists demonstrate that they can control the properties of lab-grown plant material, which could enable the production of wood products with little waste. Because of…
MIT researchers have designed a sensor that can distinguish between viral and bacterial pneumonia infections. In the background, depictions of viruses are on the left,…
According to a new research study, your brain can send out a burst of norepinephrine when it needs you to pay attention to something important.…
MIT economists studying individual income data in Ecuador found that international trade generates income gains that are about 7 percent greater for those at the…
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition of asteroid Psyche, revealing a surface of metal, sand, and rock. Credit: Screenshot courtesy of NASA…
MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it one of the closest…
Data for a new gene-function map are available for other scientists to use. “It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a…
MIT chemists have designed a new type of photoredox catalyst that could make it easier to incorporate light-driven reactions into continuous flow manufacturing processes. The…
Visualization of filamentary seed magnetic fields emerging from large-scale motions of unmagnetized plasma in a first-principles numerical simulation. Credit: Rendering courtesy of the researchers By…