ALS Reveals Fundamental Reactions Behind Advanced Battery Technology
Scientists used the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California to test a novel solid-state version of a lithium-air battery, studying…
Scientists used the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California to test a novel solid-state version of a lithium-air battery, studying…
Using the Event Horizon Telescope, an international team of scientists has for the first time measured the radius of a black hole at the center…
A newly published study from a team of neuroscientists at MIT is latest in a growing body of evidence suggesting that astrocytes are critically important…
A new study from scientists at MIT uses model simulations and observations to estimate how global warming will affect extreme precipitation, finding that with every…
A team of engineers from MIT found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs by applying two separate beams of ultrasound waves,…
In an effort to replicate the cellulose-destroying capabilities of anaerobic fungi in yeast and create a potentially cost-effective single-organism process for manufacturing cellulosic biofuels, MIT…
By using water-repellent ferrous nanoparticles that mix with oil and can be separated from water by using magnets, MIT researchers have developed a new technique…
Newly published research details how a team of scientists discovered that the effectiveness of social anxiety therapy could be predicted by measuring patients’ brain activity…
Scientists at MIT have developed an algorithm that can analyze information from medical images to identify diseased areas of the brain and their connections with…
A newly published study details how MIT scientists create and detect spin-orbit coupling in an atomic Fermi gas, a highly controllable form of quantum degenerate…
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT have genetically engineered muscle cells to flex in response to light, which may one day enable highly…
A newly published study from MIT scientists suggests that high pyruvate kinase activity may suppress tumor growth, finding that pharmaceutical compounds that force PKM2 to…
Designed by a team of scientists from Harvard, MIT, and Boston Children’s Hospital, electronic sensors made of silicon nanowires could be used to monitor electrical…
In a newly published research paper, MIT scientists describe the method they used to identify and fabricate nanocrystalline alloys that meet operational requirements, even at…
A newly published study from researchers at MIT details the use of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) as a 2D platform for electronic devices, possibly opening the…
By removing a few genes, inserting a gene from another organism and tinkering with the expression of other genes, MIT scientists have discovered a way…
A newly published study from a team of researchers found that cortical damage altered the brain’s ability to activate muscles in groups, known as “muscle…
Using a technique based on electron-beam lithography and a lift-off process, MIT scientists demonstrated the first semiconductor nanocrystal films of nanoscale dimensions that are electrically…