Bringing power to the people — and heat as well
Sun-powered system developed by MIT students could provide electricity, heat and cooling to rural schools and clinics.
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Wrinkled surfaces could have widespread applications
MIT team discovers way of making perfectly ordered and repeatable surfaces with patterns of microscale wrinkles.
Single-photon transmitter could enable new quantum devices
Long-sought goal for quantum devices — the ability to transmit single photons while blocking multiple photons — is finally achieved.
Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles
New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.
Dripping faucets inspire new way of creating structured particles
Researchers find new method for making spherical particles, from nanoscale to pinhead-sized — including complex beach-ball-like shapes.
New chip captures power from multiple sources
System developed at MIT could combine power harvested from light, heat and vibrations to run monitoring systems.
Researchers explain how dye-based nanotubes can help harvest light’s energy
Tiny cylinders help reveal how natural-light-harvesting antennae collect light with exceptional efficiency.
A new approach to water desalination
Graphene sheets with precisely controlled pores have potential to purify water more efficiently than existing methods.
IEEE honors MIT milestones in computing and navigation
World’s first real-time digital computer and electronic navigation system are commemorated in Boston.
Sharper ultrasound images could improve diagnostics
New system developed at MIT allows precise measurements and tracking of disease progression.
Sal Khan salutes ‘the wizards of tomorrow’
In commencement address, 1998 alumnus asks the Class of 2012 to perform a thought experiment in time travel.
Teaching self-assembling structures a new trick
MIT researchers produce 3-D configurations that could lead to new microchips and other devices.
In the World: MIT-designed cooler preserves tuberculosis drugs, records doses
A simple cooler could help patients battle antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.
Is that smile real or fake?
A computerized system developed at MIT can tell the difference between smiles of joy and smiles of frustration.
Crowding causes cells to produce an orderly matrix of molecules
Making proteins stand in line could lead to more lifelike lab tests.