“Boom, Boom, Boom” – MIT Astronomers Detect a Strange “Heartbeat” Billions of Light-Years From Earth
A distant neutron star could be the origin of the clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts. A strange and persistent radio signal from…
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MIT Engineers Work To Harness the Liver’s Regenerative Abilities To Treat Chronic Disease
Tissue Model Reveals Key Players in Liver Regeneration By tracing the steps of liver regrowth, MIT engineers are striving to harness the liver’s regenerative abilities…
How a Potentially Deadly Gas Could Help Fight Inflammation
Foams that incorporate small amounts of carbon monoxide gas could be delivered to the GI tract to combat colitis and other conditions. Carbon monoxide is…
Smart Textiles Accurately Sense How Their Users Are Moving
MIT researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that accurately recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping. Using a novel fabrication process, scientists at…
Electron Whirlpools Seen for the First Time – Fluid Flow Could Enable Next-Generation Electronics
Long predicted but never observed before, this fluid-like electron behavior could be leveraged for efficient low-power next-generation electronics. Water molecules, although being distinct particles, flow…
MIT Quantum Sensor Can Detect Electromagnetic Signals of Any Frequency
MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for biological sensing and quantum computing. With the ability to detect the…
MIT Spinout Tapping Into the Million-Year Energy Source Below Our Feet
Quaise Energy, an MIT spinout, is working to create geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world. There’s an abandoned coal power plant…
Marking the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery
Christoph Paus, the MIT physicist who co-led the effort to detect the particle, looks ahead to the next 10 years. July 4, 2022, marked 10…
MIT Physicists Discover a Family of “Magic” Superconducting Graphene Structures
The discovery could inform the design of practical superconducting devices. When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is…
AI Machine-Learning: In Bias We Trust?
According to a new study, explanation methods that help users determine whether to trust machine-learning model predictions can be less accurate for disadvantaged subgroups. Machine-learning…
Reversing Depression and Motor Dysfunction: Three Distinct Brain Circuits Contribute to Parkinson’s Symptoms
Targeting these brain circuits could offer a new way to reverse motor dysfunction and depression in Parkinson’s patients. Parkinson’s disease is primarily recognized as a…
MIT Engineers Boost Signals From Fluorescent Sensors – Offering Unique Glimpse Inside Living Cells
Engineering advance allows particles to be placed deeper within biological tissue, which could aid with cancer diagnosis or monitoring. Fluorescent sensors, which can be used…
Stronger Security for Smart Devices To Efficiently Protect Against Powerful Hacker Attacks
Engineers demonstrate two security methods that efficiently protect analog-to-digital converters from powerful attacks that aim to steal user data. Researchers are racing against hackers to…
MIT Develops Nanoparticles That Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier To Treat Cancer Tumors
Tested using a new brain tissue model, the tiny particles may be able to deliver chemotherapy drugs for glioblastoma, a fast-growing and aggressive type of…
Early Sound Exposure in the Womb Is Beneficial, and Perhaps Necessary, for Auditory Development
A modeling study suggests that the muffled environment in utero primes the brain’s ability to interpret some types of sound. Inside the womb, fetuses can…
MIT Scientists Discover Molecules in Mucus That Can Fight Fungal Infection
Harnessing the strength of specialized sugar molecules found in mucus could help researchers develop new antifungal drugs. Candida albicans is a yeast that often lives…
Chemists Reveal How Tau Proteins Form Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Tangles
Two types of tau proteins mix together in a nearly random way to generate the tangles seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s Disease….
MIT Engineers Build LEGO-Like Reconfigurable Artificial Intelligence Chip
The new AI chip design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors. Imagine a more sustainable…
