Seeking materials that match the brain
Polina Anikeeva explores ways to make neural probes that are compatible with delicate biological tissues.
Polina Anikeeva explores ways to make neural probes that are compatible with delicate biological tissues.
New members have made advances in the development of plasticity, novel genetic evolution methods, systems modeling, and clean energy.
Study finds that turbulence competes in fusion plasmas to rapidly respond to temperature perturbations.
With SHERLOCK, a strip of paper can now indicate presence of pathogens, tumor DNA, or any genetic signature of interest.
Technology developed at MIT can harness temperature fluctuations of many kinds to produce electricity.
Faculty from six MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
A new special subject, Agricultural Microbial Ecology, takes students to Israel.
AJ Edelman ’14 will represent Israel in the men's skeleton during the 2018 Winter Olympics.
MIT researchers create predictable patterns from unpredictable carbon nanotubes.
New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption by up to 95 percent, making them practical for battery-powered devices.
An increase in corn and soybean production in the Midwest may have led to cooler, wetter summers there.
Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold.
TREX program from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering takes students to Hawaii to conduct environmental research.
CSAIL's NanoMap system enables drones to avoid obstacles while flying at 20 miles per hour, by more deeply integrating sensing and control.
Assistant professor in EECS is developing materials with novel structures and useful applications, including renewable energy and information storage.