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High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool

Findings may help predict how rain and irrigation systems launch particles and pathogens from watery surfaces, with implications for industry, agriculture, and public health.

February 21, 2025

An electric car, heat pumps for home heating, a battery, and solar panels point to each other in loop

Rooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience

MIT engineers propose a new “local electricity market” to tap into the power potential of homeowners’ grid-edge devices.

February 20, 2025

Salvatore Vitale portrait on staircase, with diagonal handrails

Viewing the universe through ripples in space

Physicist Salvatore Vitale is looking for new sources of gravitational waves, to reach beyond what we can learn about the universe through light alone.

February 18, 2025

Diagram of 5mm gel sheet, showing mucus protein and polymers coming together at star-shaped crosslinkers

Engineers turn the body’s goo into new glue

They combined a blend of slimy and sticky proteins to produce a fast-acting, bacteria-blocking, waterproof adhesive for use in biomedical applications.

February 17, 2025

The Phoenix cluster of galaxies has green and purple overlays.

Study reveals the Phoenix galaxy cluster in the act of extreme cooling

Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope help to explain the cluster’s mysterious starburst, usually only seen in younger galaxies.

February 13, 2025

Andrew Babbin sits inside with Boston skyline in background

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

MIT oceanographer and biogeochemist Andrew Babbin has voyaged around the globe to investigate marine microbes and their influence on ocean health.

February 6, 2025

Arrows point down and leafy letters say “CO2.”

3 Questions: What the laws of physics tell us about CO2 removal

In a report on the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, physicists say these technologies are “not a magic bullet, but also not a no-go.”

February 6, 2025

3D rendering shows yellow energy shooting across layers of a graphene lattice laid out on a flat surface. White energy appears from another segment.

Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle” graphene

By determining how readily electron pairs flow through this material, scientists have taken a big step toward understanding its remarkable properties.

February 5, 2025

MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zone

New research could improve the safety of drone shows, warehouse robots, and self-driving cars.

January 31, 2025

Luca Carlone holds a controller in background, with a yellow dog-type robot in foreground.

Expanding robot perception

Associate Professor Luca Carlone is working to give robots a more human-like awareness of their environment.

January 28, 2025

Energy swirls around a black hole, and a white dwarf, like a sphere, trails matter. Blue energy goes toward the center of the black hole.

X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously

Their source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge, MIT astronomers report.

January 13, 2025

Two photos show the lab equipment and a white paper that looks clean.

New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

MIT engineers designed a nanofiltration process that could make aluminum production more efficient while reducing hazardous waste.

January 7, 2025

Cartoony illustration of a large green bean-shaped Prochlorococcus shedding bits of itself, as pink SAR11 happily sleep and eat.

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

New findings illuminate how Prochlorococcus’ nightly “cross-feeding” plays a role in regulating the ocean’s capacity to cycle and store carbon.

January 3, 2025

MIT scientists pin down the origins of a fast radio burst

The fleeting cosmic firework likely emerged from the turbulent magnetosphere around a far-off neutron star.

January 1, 2025

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Physicists magnetize a material with light

The technique provides researchers with a powerful tool for controlling magnetism, and could help in designing faster, smaller, more energy-efficient memory chips.

December 18, 2024

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