Passenger Mutations Can Slow or Even Halt Tumor Growth
A newly published study shows that so-called passenger mutations can slow or even halt tumor growth and suggests that cancer should be viewed as an…
A newly published study shows that so-called passenger mutations can slow or even halt tumor growth and suggests that cancer should be viewed as an…
MIT scientists have developed a new process for creating quantum dots with four important qualities, high particle uniformity, high photoluminescence quantum yields, narrow and symmetric…
Four groups of scientists announced progress on a quantum-computing proposal made two years ago by MIT researchers that has the potential to lead towards the…
A team of scientists from Stanford, MIT, and JPL has developed an autonomous system for exploring moons and asteroids that could help take space exploration…
A team of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider found that in a sample of 2 million lead-proton collisions, some pairs of particles flew…
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, emits relatively little energy for its size, as much energy as Sol…
The 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition winner, Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposed using a…
Algebraists are promising to improve wireless bandwidth by an order of magnitude, not by adding base stations, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging…
Finding that large membranes engineered from single sheets of graphene allow small molecules to pass through, researchers are now looking to use the graphene membranes…
In a new study, MIT neuroscientists found that Broca’s area actually consists of two distinct subunits, one focuses selectively on language processing, while the other…
A team of MIT chemists revealed how they developed a method for drawing gas sensors on paper using a tailor-made, super-conductive carbon nanotube pencil. The…
Synthetic biologists design circuits using genes as interchangeable parts, allowing them to perform new functions, such as sensing environmental conditions. However, the overall complexity that…
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…