Countering climate change with cool pavements
Researchers affiliated with the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub find that paving material selection could mitigate extreme heat and greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers affiliated with the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub find that paving material selection could mitigate extreme heat and greenhouse gas emissions.
SensiCut, a smart material-sensing platform for laser cutters, can differentiate between 30 materials commonly found in makerspaces and workshops.
Made of components found in the human body, the programmable system is a step toward safer, targeted delivery of gene editing and other molecular therapeutics.
In a study that could benefit quantum computing, researchers show a superlattice embedded with nanodots may be immune from dissipating energy to the environment.
System uses tiny magnetic beads to rapidly measure the position of muscles and relay that information to a bionic prosthesis.
The results may help engineers develop a way to inject drugs without needles.
As researchers consider materials for solid-state batteries, they also may want to consider how those materials could impact large-scale manufacturing.
Prosthetic enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat.
MIT team looks at classroom configurations and offers modifications to enhance safety during Covid-19 pandemic.
The commonplace phenomenon, now quantified for the first time, could be harnessed for many useful applications.
MIT team produces practical guidelines for generating hydrogen using scrap aluminum.
Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million years that may return if ice sheets disappear.
An MIT study gauges the pace of shifting to battery power.
After nearly a decade, an interdisciplinary collaboration to model a 3D spider web leads to many surprising results.
MIT researchers employ machine learning to find powerful peptides that could improve a gene therapy drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.