MIT’s Azra Akšamija: Rebuilding Cultures Through Art, Design, and Community
Once displaced by war, MIT’s Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict. In the spring of 2016, a striking…
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How MIT Built Its Own COVID-19 Testing Trailer That Can Test Up to 1,500 People a Day
Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day. In mid-March, in response…
How Airplanes Counteract Luminous Plasma Phenomenon, St. Elmo’s Fire, During Thunderstorms
On the ground, windy conditions strengthen these electrical flashes, but new experiments tell a different story for flying objects. At the height of a thunderstorm,…
New Research Finds That Mask Mandates Have Major Impact – Tens of Thousands of Lives at Stake
Analysis shows requiring masks for public-facing U.S. business employees on April 1 would have saved tens of thousands of lives. The research described in this…
MIT Engineers Discover How Shaving Soft Hair Dulls Even the Sharpest of Razors
Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it can chip away a razor’s edge, a new study shows. Razors, scalpels, and knives are…
MIT Makes Their Own Lava, Discovers Lava Oceans May Not Explain Brightness of Some Hot Super-Earths
By making their own lava and cooled glass, scientists find these materials likely aren’t responsible for the unexpected glow of some exoplanets. Arguably some of…
Origin of Oddball Meteorites: Exploring Magnetization Preserved for Billions of Years
Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to study exploring magnetization preserved for billions of years in meteorite samples. X-ray experiments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)…
Quantum Blackjack: Using Quantum Entanglement to Gain an Advantage in the Game of Blackjack
Can a Quantum Strategy Help Bring Down the House? In some versions of the game blackjack, one way to win against the house is for…
Specialized Nanoparticles Create a “Breath Signal” to Diagnose Diseases by Analyzing a Patient’s Breath
Exhaled Biomarkers Can Reveal Lung Disease Specialized nanoparticles create a “breath signal” that could be used to diagnose pneumonia and other infectious or genetic diseases….
MIT Scientists Create Giant “Artificial Atoms” to Enable Quantum Processing and Communication in One
Researchers devise an on-off system that allows high-fidelity operations and interconnection between processors. MIT researchers have introduced a quantum computing architecture that can perform low-error…
MIT Is Going to Mars to Make Oxygen From Martian Air: With Perseverance and a Little MOXIE
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air. On July…
“Snowball Earths” May Have Been Triggered by a Plunge in Incoming Sunlight – “Be Wary of Speed”
Findings also suggest exoplanets lying within habitable zones may be susceptible to ice ages. At least twice in Earth’s history, nearly the entire planet was…
MIT’s New Evidence on Dinosaur Evolution
Geological evidence suggests the known dinosaur groups diverged early on, supporting the traditional dinosaur family tree. The classic dinosaur family tree has two subdivisions of…
MIT Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Put an End to the COVID-19 Pandemic
C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards $5.4 million to top researchers to steer how society responds to the pandemic. Artificial intelligence has the power to help…
MIT Dream Research Interacts Directly With an Individual’s Dreaming Brain and Manipulates the Content
Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes. The study of dreams has entered the modern era in exciting…
MIT Chemists Make Tough Thermoset Plastics Recyclable
New method for producing thermoset plastics allows them to be broken down more easily after use. Thermosets, which include epoxies, polyurethanes, and rubber used for…
MIT Scientists Work With 3M to Develop Rapid COVID-19 Test – Highly Accurate Results Within 10 Minutes
Company working with Sikes Lab to test feasibility of low-cost diagnostic that could be manufactured by the millions each day. Hadley Sikes, an associate professor…
Communicating the “Beauty and Complexity” of Science
With a newly minted PhD from MIT, Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira now explores the scientific enterprise through journalism. A few months into her virology doctoral…