Using light to generate order in an exotic material: Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses…
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Autonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea: Robotic boats could more rapidly locate the most…
Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant. Its extendable appendage can…
In a new anthropology and studio art course, Massachusetts Institute of Technology students investigate the…
Paul Blainey’s technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics, and drug screening. Microfluidics — the science…
Coating particles with “right-handed” molecules could help them penetrate cancer cells more easily. MIT engineers…
Extremely large electric fields can prevent umbrella-shaped ammonia molecules from inverting. A molecule of ammonia,…
What makes an image memorable? Ask a computer. From the “Mona Lisa” to the “Girl…
Navigation method may speed up autonomous last-mile delivery. In the not too distant future, robots…
Passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat…
Imagine being trapped inside a collapsed building after a disaster, wondering if anybody will be…
MIT and University of Colorado researchers are collaborating on an experiment to be sent to…
New double-sided tape for tissues binds wet surfaces within seconds and could be used to…
Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots can self-assemble to form various…
Helping autonomous vehicles see around corners: By sensing tiny changes in shadows, a new system…
Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more. Using a…
The process could work on the gas at any concentration, from power plant emissions to…
Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions…