Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically…
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Producing better guides for medical-image analysis: Model quickly generates brain scan templates that represent a…
A specialized silk covering could protect seeds from salinity while also providing fertilizer-generating microbes. Providing…
New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say. MIT…
Optimizing soft robots to perform specific tasks is a huge computational problem, but a new…
Using deductive reasoning, the bot identifies friend or foe to ensure victory over humans in…
New control system may enable humanoid robots to do heavy lifting and other physically demanding…
Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas: Device may enable “T-ray vision” and better wireless…
New strategy for encapsulating nutrients makes it easier to fortify foods with iron and vitamin…
Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer…
Using light to generate order in an exotic material: Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses…
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…