Zeroing in on the origins of Earth’s “single most important evolutionary innovation”
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago.
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago.
MIT Haystack Observatory will be part of the new radio spectrum management and coordination center.
Reversible system can flip the magnetic orientation of particles with a small voltage; could lead to faster data storage and smaller sensors.
Economists find companies’ adoption of robots is partly due to shortages in middle-aged labor.
Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
Studying these organoids could help researchers develop and test new treatments for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer.
A new approach increases the efficiency of chemical reactions that are key to many industrial processes.
ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law.
The new pill can inject large quantities of monoclonal antibodies and other drugs into the lining of the stomach after being swallowed.
System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.
MIT researchers employ machine learning to find powerful peptides that could improve a gene therapy drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
A new adhesive that mimics the sticky substance barnacles use to cling to rocks may offer a better way to treat traumatic injuries.
Technique for editing bacterial genomes can record interactions between cells, may offer a way to edit genes in the human microbiome.
The results could help scientists unravel the processes underlying plate tectonics.
New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers.