Researchers Reveal How Chronic Inflammation Can Lead to Cancer
New research from MIT reveals how the immune system can create cancerous DNA mutations when fighting off infection. Chronic inflammation caused by disease or exposure…
New research from MIT reveals how the immune system can create cancerous DNA mutations when fighting off infection. Chronic inflammation caused by disease or exposure…
Physicists from MIT have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field. The magnetic field…
In a newly published study, researchers reveal new insights into the coupling between wetting and catalytic activity and suggest that catalyst hydrophobicity should be considered…
A team of scientists has developed a polymer gel that could allow for the development of long-acting devices that reside in the stomach, including orally…
In a new study from MIT researchers reveal that a simple roundworm has the ability to spit out potentially deadly substances — a finding that…
Using an exotic material called gallium nitride (GaN), Cambridge Electronics Inc. has announced a line of GaN transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to…
A newly published study from MIT and the University of Chicago reveals that pharmaceutical firms “underinvest” in long-term research to develop new cancer-fighting drugs due…
A newly published study from MIT and colleagues shows that ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton communities, recealing that many species may die…
Scientists at MIT have developed a new statistical technique that yields better wind-speed predictions than existing techniques do, saving power companies’ time and money in…
An international team of physicists has confirmed for the first time the experimental observation of Weyl points. Part of a 1929 prediction by physicist Hermann…
In a newly published study scientists from MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory reveal how electrical charge carriers move in conjugated polymers, potentially opening up further…
A team of researchers from MIT and UCLA have identified zebra-like stripes of plasma in a region of space about 12,000 miles from Earth’s surface….
Richard Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, takes time to answer questions about New Horizons unprecedented view of Pluto and how the new images may…
New research from engineers at MIT helps explain the science of why puddles stop spreading. When you spill a bit of water onto a tabletop,…
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that, for several common big-data applications, should make servers using flash memory as efficient as those using…
New research from MIT unveils a series of sensors, memory switches, and circuits that can be encoded in the common human gut bacterium. The “friendly”…
Using yarns made from niobium nanowire, researchers at MIT have developed a new approach to making supercapacitors. Wearable electronic devices for health and fitness monitoring…
New research from MIT details brainwave changes in patients receiving nitrous oxide, revealing that EEG recordings show large-amplitude slow-delta waves after the administration of nitrous…