Batteries power clean energy transformation
Materials Day Symposium will highlight strong potential to cut greenhouse gases with electric cars, solar and wind energy storage.
Manufacturing microspheres
Technique mass-produces uniform, encapsulated particles for pharmaceuticals, many other uses.
Rewarding Boston’s safest driver
Mayor Martin Walsh announces a competition aimed at improving Boston driving with an app developed by an MIT spinout.
MIT shares $75 million grant to fight heart disease
One Brave Idea Research Award will support the search for new biomarkers and treatments.
Monitoring Parkinson’s symptoms at home
Keyboard-monitoring technique can detect motor difficulties as patients type.
Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Newly discovered phenomenon could affect materials in batteries and water-splitting devices.
3-D-printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
By “programming” customized soft materials, CSAIL team can 3-D print safer, nimbler, more durable robots.
Benoit Forget: Unraveling complexities of nuclear reactors
By making detailed simulations of reactor cores, the MIT engineer is helping to advance new designs.
A better way to assay
New design of large-scale microparticle arrays can make materials science and bioengineering applications more scalable, precise, and versatile.
Collaborating with community colleges to innovate educational technology
Inspired by aerospace engineering, MIT Fly-by-Wire project enables customized teaching and learning experiences.
Researchers find explanation for interacting giant, hidden ocean waves
Better simulations of internal tides may benefit sonar communications, protect offshore structures, and more.
Engineer, explain thyself
A new online tool helps graduate students communicate — in their own languages.
Study: Low-emissions vehicles are less expensive overall
Detailed look at 125 U.S. auto models finds those emitting less carbon are the least expensive to drive.