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Along the genome, proteins form liquid-like droplets that appear to boost the expression of particular…
MIT computer scientists are hoping to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence to improve medical…
In the brain, when neurons fire off electrical signals to their neighbors, this happens through…
A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s…
In any conventional silicon-based solar cell, there is an absolute limit on overall efficiency, based…
Baking soda, table salt, and detergent are surprisingly effective ingredients for cooking up carbon nanotubes,…
A team of engineers has built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing,…
Taking a cue from biological cells, scientists from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have developed…
A new way of measuring atomic-scale magnetic fields with great precision, not only up and…
Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary…
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells…
MIT researchers have developed a new cryptocurrency that drastically reduces the data users need to…
Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental…
Pulse pattern suggests distant black hole must be spinning at least at 50 percent the…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar…
Messenger RNA, which can induce cells to produce therapeutic proteins, holds great promise for treating…
For the first time, researchers from MIT and elsewhere have recorded the “temporal coherence” of…