Undergraduates ramp up research during pandemic diaspora
Far from MIT, nuclear science and engineering students take ownership of projects and explore new terrain.
Far from MIT, nuclear science and engineering students take ownership of projects and explore new terrain.
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain in a new theoretical model.
Seven studies describe progress thus far and challenges ahead for a revolutionary zero-emissions power source.
MIT’s Katlyn Turner and four other nuclear scientists issue a call for antiracist actions within their profession.
Undergraduate research opportunities in the Plasma Science and Fusion Center’s High-Energy-Density Physics division support multiple fusion collaborations.
Undergraduates Aljazzy Alahmadi, Andrea Garcia, and Quynh Nguyen are sustaining the nuclear science and engineering research mission from around the world.
Researchers devise a practical solution for preventing corrosive CRUD buildup in nuclear systems.
Storage value increases as variable renewable energy supplies an increasing share of electricity, but storage cost declines are needed to realize full potential.
Eight faculty members have been granted tenure in five departments across the School of Engineering.
Multidisciplinary team uses metal organic frameworks to extract radioactive krypton from fuel-reprocessing gasses.
Graduate student Muni Zhou shows how tiny magnetic seed fields can expand to cosmic proportions.
In certain alloys, exposure to proton irradiation can extend the material’s lifetime, study finds.
Ion-based technology may enable energy-efficient simulations of the brain’s learning process, for neural network AI systems.
Exotic states called Kohn anomalies could offer clues to why some materials have the electronic properties they do.
Using 3D fabrication, researchers develop novel nuclear materials that optimize both accident tolerance and performance.