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MIT engineers build smart power outlet
Design can “learn” to identify plugged-in appliances, distinguish dangerous electrical spikes from benign ones.
June 15, 2018 -
MIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
Platform may enable continuous, low-cost, reliable devices that detect chemicals in the environment.
June 14, 2018 -
Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
New printing technique could be used to develop remotely controlled biomedical devices.
June 13, 2018 -
3 Questions: Pinning down a neutrino’s mass
KATRIN experiment investigates the ghostly particle.
June 8, 2018 -
3 Questions: Roger Summons on finding organic matter on Mars
Discovery adds to evidence suggesting that Mars was at one time habitable.
June 7, 2018 -
Keeping data fresh for wireless networks
Algorithm provides networks with the most current information available while avoiding data congestion.
June 4, 2018 -
Engineers design color-changing compression bandage
Bandage is threaded with photonic fibers that change color to signal pressure level.
May 29, 2018 -
Turning up the heat on thermoelectrics
New materials, heated under high magnetic fields, could produce record levels of energy, model shows.
May 25, 2018 -
Albatross robot takes flight
Autonomous glider can fly like an albatross, cruise like a sailboat.
May 18, 2018 -
Researchers develop virtual-reality testing ground for drones
With new system, drones navigate through an empty room, avoiding crashes while “seeing” a virtual world.
May 17, 2018 -
New theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
Findings may help track movement of pesticides and biological contaminants.
May 16, 2018 -
Study: Health benefits will offset cost of China’s climate policy
A 4 percent reduction per year in carbon dioxide emissions should net $339 billion in health savings in 2030, researchers estimate.
April 23, 2018 -
A graphene roll-out
Scalable manufacturing process spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes.
April 17, 2018 -
TESS readies for takeoff
Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones.
April 12, 2018 -
Dense stellar clusters may foster black hole megamergers
Black holes in these environments could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything a single star could produce.
April 10, 2018 -
Brewing up Earth’s earliest life
Large concentrations of sulfites and bisulfites in shallow lakes may have set the stage for Earth’s first biological molecules.
April 8, 2018 -
Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
Technique could prevent overheating of laptops, mobile phones, and other electronics.
March 30, 2018 -
Paper-folding art inspires better bandages
Cutting kirigami-style slits in stretchy films could make for bandages, heat pads, and wearable electronics that adhere to flexible surfaces.
March 27, 2018 -
Scientists report first results from CUORE neutrino experiment
Data could shed light on why the universe has more matter than antimatter.
March 26, 2018 -
Physicists discover new quantum electronic material
With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior.
March 19, 2018 -
Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star
Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.
March 18, 2018 -
Scientists find seismic imaging is blind to water
Findings may lead scientists to reinterpret seismic maps of the Earth's interior.
March 14, 2018 -
Evading in-flight lightning strikes
MIT study shows electrically charging planes would reduce their risk of being struck by lightning.
March 8, 2018 -
Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both
When rotated at a "magic angle," graphene sheets can form an insulator or a superconductor.
March 5, 2018 -
Astronomers detect earliest evidence yet of hydrogen in the universe
Emitted just 180 million years after Big Bang, signal indicates universe was much colder than expected.
February 28, 2018