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MIT researchers have developed hardware that uses electric fields to move droplets of chemical or…
Five new planets have been discovered outside our solar system, all orbiting a sun-like star…
What if you could run your air conditioner not on conventional electricity, but on the…
MIT biologists have designed a new peptide that can disrupt a key protein that many…
Topological effects, such as those found in crystals whose surfaces conduct electricity while their bulk…
Vision impairment is a major global issue. More than 2 billion people worldwide don’t have…
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a capsule that can deliver…
To most, an operating room and a manufacturing plant are as different as any two…
Liquid-liquid separation and chemical extraction are key processes in drug manufacturing and many other industries,…
Researchers at MIT have developed a process that can produce ultrafine fibers — whose diameter…
When you enter a room, your brain is bombarded with sensory information. If the room…
A team of researchers has discovered a drug combination that can regenerate hair cells in…
For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab has been…
Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new…
Companies often employ number-crunching data scientists to gather insights such as which customers want certain…
The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels…
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the…