In its final days of operation in 2018, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope potentially discovered its…
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By adding weak linkers to a polymer network, chemists dramatically enhanced the material’s resistance to…
The device emits a stream of single photons and could provide a basis for optical…
Scientists find a protein common to flies and people is essential for supporting the structure…
MIT researchers have found a new mechanism by which the superconductor iron selenide transitions into…
A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of…
The Cytoelectric Coupling hypothesis suggests brain waves shape neural structures, optimizing cognition and memory through…
Over more than 50 years at MIT, he made fundamental contributions to quantum field theory…
A new study shows lawyers find simplified legal documents easier to understand, more appealing, and…
By applying a language model to protein-drug interactions, researchers can quickly screen large libraries of…
The bioderived “smart sutures” could help patients heal after bowel resection or other types of…
A study inspired by the Japanese paper-cutting art provides a blueprint for designing shape-shifting materials…
Omer Yilmaz’s work on how diet influences intestinal stem cells could lead to new ways…
Using insights into how people intuit others’ emotions, researchers have designed a model that approximates…
Physicist Daniel Harlow explores an alternate quantum reality in search of fundamental truths to our…
A new Jell-O-like material could replace metals as electrical interfaces for pacemakers, cochlear implants, and…
Technology demonstrations show the machine’s major components achieve the required performance. MIT engineers are developing…
MIT’s Senseable City Lab popularized visual tools that show how cities work. A new book…