Q&A: Catching Pluto’s shadow
MIT scientists assist as a NASA mission chases Pluto’s shadow to catch details of its atmosphere.
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Working out in artificial gravity
A combination of exercise and artificial gravity may lessen negative effects of weightlessness in space.
New model calculates how air transport connects the world
Study finds one-stop flights are a big contributor to global connectivity.
Predicting sediment flow in coastal vegetation
Model could help engineers design erosion-prevention strategies in marshes, wetlands, aquatic forests.
Small thunderstorms may add up to massive cyclones on Saturn
New model may predict cyclone activity on other planets.
MIT team creates ultracold molecules
At near absolute zero, molecules may start to exhibit exotic states of matter.
Vanishing friction
In tuning friction to the point where it disappears, technique could boost development of nanomachines.
A check on runaway lake drainage
Draining lakes are unlikely to increase the Greenland ice sheet’s contribution to sea-level rise.
A new tool measures the distance between phonon collisions
Tabletop setup provides more nuanced picture of heat production in microelectronics.
Circular orbits identified for small exoplanets
Observations of 74 Earth-sized planets around distant stars may narrow field of habitable candidates.
Researchers build new fermion microscope
Instrument freezes and images 1,000 individual fermionic atoms at once.
MIT engineers hand “cognitive” control to underwater robots
With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.
Tracing the evolution of a landscape
Geologist Taylor Perron explores river networks on Earth and beyond.