Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
New MIT system of contracting fibers could be a boon for biomedical devices and robotics.
New CRISPR platform expands RNA editing capabilities
The new system, dubbed RESCUE, allows RNA edits to be made that were not previously possible.
New vaccine strategy boosts T-cell therapy
Super-charging a treatment for leukemia also makes it effective on solid tumors.
Enriching solid-state batteries
MIT researchers demonstrate a method to make a smaller, safer, and faster lithium-rich ceramic electrolyte.
Seven MIT faculty win 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards
Checkelsky, Chung, LeBeau, Lee, Marelli, Slatyer, and Surendranath receive the highest U.S. award for young scientists and engineers.
IDSS hosts inaugural Learning for Dynamics and Control conference
L4DC explored an emerging scientific area at the intersection of real-time physical data, machine learning, control theory, and optimization.
Caring for her community
PhD candidate and co-founder of Graduate Women in Chemical Engineering Lisa Volpatti works to support her fellow graduate students.
Benoit Forget named associate head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Co-leader of the MIT Computational Reactor Physics Group will focus on expanding computational science and engineering activities.
Machine learning for everyone
A new EECS course on applications of machine learning teaches students from a variety of disciplines about one of today’s hottest topics.
Micro ring resonator has highest silicon carbide quality factor to date
MIT, Singapore researchers show high-quality photonic device based on amorphous silicon carbide.
A new way of making complex structures in thin films
Self-assembling materials can form patterns that might be useful in optical devices.
Making wireless communication more energy efficient
Along with studying theory, "it's also important to me that the work we are doing will help to solve real-world problems,” says LIDS student Omer Tanovic.
An atomic-scale erector set
To predict building damage, Kostas Keremidis of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub is modeling structures as ensembles of atoms.
Experiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output
Method for collecting two electrons from each photon could break through theoretical solar-cell efficiency limit.
Featured video: Saving iguanas with science and engineering
Professor Otto Cordero and colleagues ask: Can microbiome engineering make the Galapagos marine iguana more resilient to climate change?