Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new…
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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…
The thermodynamic properties of compounds such as aluminum oxide, which are known as refractory materials…
Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read…
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data,…
MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes…
MIT spinout Portal Instruments has landed a commercialization deal for a smart, needle-free injection device…
Scientists at MIT have discovered a way to make bacteria more vulnerable to a class…
A team of astronomers, including two from MIT, has detected the most distant supermassive black…
Engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing technique that uses a new kind of…
“Two-dimensional materials” — materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick —…
A new study from MIT provides evidence for an alternative timekeeping system that relies on…
Plasmas, gas-like collections of ions and electrons, make up an estimated 99 percent of the…
Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits…
Engineers at MIT have developed a new desktop 3D printer that performs up to 10…
Scientists at MIT have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting…