Unlocking the secrets of natural materials
Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods.
Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods.
Researchers are working to advance the field of glycoscience, illuminating the essential role of carbohydrates for human health and disease.
MIT Digital Learning Lab and Empowr pilot a new internship program.
MIT CSAIL researchers established new connections between combinatorial and continuous optimization, which can find global solutions for complex motion-planning puzzles.
MIT and MGH researchers design a local, gel-based drug-delivery platform that may provoke a system-wide immune response to metastatic tumors.
Fusion’s success as a renewable energy depends on the creation of an industry to support it, and academia is vital to that industry’s development.
More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.
Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, kicks off an MIT symposium on the promise and potential pitfalls of increasingly powerful AI tools like ChatGPT.
Using fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study how molecules in a cell interact to control the cell’s behavior.
Core-shell structures made of hydrogel could enable more efficient uptake in the body.
Zack Cordero’s research focuses on extending the lifespan of reusable rockets, while simultaneously reducing the risk of catastrophic failure.
The Nano Summit highlights nanoscale research across multiple disciplines at MIT.
The work demonstrates control over key properties leading to better performance.
Fall 2023 Wulff Lecture speaker Sossina Haile ’86, PhD ’92 uses ammonia and a “superprotonic” material for efficient and eco-friendly energy generation.
By analyzing bacterial data, researchers have discovered thousands of rare new CRISPR systems that have a range of functions and could enable gene editing, diagnostics, and more.