Student-designed Nimbus solar car travels 1,109 miles in five days, averaging 38.4 miles per hour.…
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Researchers find three immunotherapy drugs given together can eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice. Pancreatic cancer,…
Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million years that may return if…
Blocking a key enzyme could kill parasites that have evolved resistance to existing drugs. Every…
New algorithm could enable fast, nimble drones for time-critical operations such as search and rescue.…
MIT team looks at classroom configurations and offers modifications to enhance safety during COVID-19 pandemic.…
A longstanding interest in radiation’s effects on metals has drawn Michael Short into new areas…
A new adhesive that mimics the sticky substance barnacles use to cling to rocks may…
MIT-led research team fashions graphene foam into device that can extract uranium and other heavy…
Technique for editing bacterial genomes can record interactions between cells, may offer a way to…
SMART researchers have developed an innovative method to detect and quantify the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant…
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants…
The results could help scientists unravel the processes underlying plate tectonics. If the Earth’s oceans…
Daniel Korsun’s undergraduate career at MIT prepared him to look more deeply into fusion magnet…
Applied in the field, a new model reduced quakes from oil and gas processes; could…
Research from MIT Haystack Observatory finds a stratospheric warming event over Antarctica linked to anomalies…
Suono Bio, founded by two MIT professors and an alumnus, is using a proven technology…
MIT researchers train a neural network to predict a “boiling crisis,” with potential applications for…