Cracked metal, heal thyself
Unexpected result shows that in some cases, pulling apart makes cracks in metal fuse together.
Unexpected result shows that in some cases, pulling apart makes cracks in metal fuse together.
The quest to build fast, cooperating robots that can explore the ocean's dynamic features is happening on the Charles River.
A neglected statistical tool could help robots better understand the objects in the world around them.
CSAIL researchers are using a computational model that better understands peripheral vision to test the usability of MBTA subway maps.
Elfatih Eltahir is associate department head, Philip Gschwend is director of Parsons Lab and Daniele Veneziano leads Pierce Lab
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
Condensation on a metal plate leads to formation of droplets that carry electric charge, could improve power-plant efficiency.
MIT senior Grace Young’s love of marine robotics will lead her to spend up to a month underwater this semester, collecting data and teaching classes over Skype to help save the oceans.
Common mineral gets first detailed examination of its surface electronic properties, thanks to team of MIT researchers.
Graduate student Nicolas Aimon develops pulsed laser deposition techniques for mixed multiferroic oxide films.
Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise.
New techniques for combining complex oxide thin films promise electrical control of magnetic properties for data storage and computing.