Crystal Boundaries Can Enhance, or Reduce, Hydrogen Embrittlement
A newly published study from MIT details how certain crystal boundaries can enhance, or reduce, the damaging effects that lead to metal embrittlement. When a…
A newly published study from MIT details how certain crystal boundaries can enhance, or reduce, the damaging effects that lead to metal embrittlement. When a…
A new theoretical model describes the relationship between a leaf’s flexibility, the fragmentation of the fluid, and its resulting pattern of raindrop-induced dispersal. Using high-speed…
Using a qubit design that employs nitrogen atoms embedded in synthetic diamond, a team of researchers has developed a new technique that greatly extends the…
New research from MIT shows that adding or removing small amounts of water from collagen in tendons can generate surprisingly strong forces, as much as…
A new study reveals a natural impediment to the long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide, showing that as carbon dioxide works its way underground only a…
Using a new variation on the methods used to bend light, a team of physicists reveal that subatomic particles can be induced to speed up…
New research from MIT reveals a link between inflammation and cancer, showing that the timing of inflammation determines whether potentially cancerous mutations may arise. A…
By physically enlarging the specimen itself, researchers from MIT have invented a new way to visualize the nanoscale structure of the brain and other tissues….
A newly published study from researchers at MIT and Purdue University reveals that chondrules were byproducts of a violent and messy planetary process, not building…
MIT scientists use high-speed cameras to show that when a raindrop hits a surface it traps tiny air bubbles at the point of contact and…
MIT engineers have developed a new device that allows scientists to observe communication between immune cells. The immune system is a complex network of many…
New research from MIT shows that a system using an off-the-shelf algorithm to aggregate different perspectives allows household robots to recognize four times as many…
In a new study, researchers describe a micrometer-scale flip-chip process that enables scalable integration of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on a range of photonic circuits….
New thermal-imaging cars from MIT spinout Essess can quickly track energy leaks in thousands of homes and buildings, helping owners curb energy loss. In 2007,…
A newly published study details how a team of researchers were able to discover half-light, half-matter particles in atomically thin semiconductors. Prospects of developing computing…
By using optogenetics to trigger REM sleep in mice, a team of researchers from MIT has moved a step closer to being able to produce…
MIT researchers detail how a floating nuclear power plant design could provide enhanced safety – it would be unaffected by the motions of a tsunami…
A new prototype system from MIT stores data from your digital devices in a single location that you specify, allowing you to pick and choose…