“MultiFab” 3-D prints a record 10 materials at once, no assembly required
Printer from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab uses machine vision and 3-D scanning to self-correct and directly embed components.
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Building the Living Wage Calculator
Amy Glasmeier explores economic variations by region to shed light on income inequality.
Making the new silicon
Gallium nitride electronics could drastically cut energy usage in data centers, consumer devices.
Study: Firms “underinvest” in long-term cancer research
Tweaks to the R&D pipeline could create new drugs and greater social benefit.
Computing at the speed of light
Graduate student Sergio Cantu studies lasers to increase computational speed and security.
High school students find their MathROOTS at MIT
Program aims to inspire female and underrepresented minority students to pursue STEM fields.
Small thunderstorms may add up to massive cyclones on Saturn
New model may predict cyclone activity on other planets.
Bringing biochemistry to life with color
Senior biology and chemistry major Daniel Zhang helps build noninvasive cancer diagnostic tools.
Advance in quantum error correction
Protocol corrects virtually all errors in quantum memory, but requires little measure of quantum states.
Esther Duflo receives Princess of Asturias Award
Top Spanish prize awarded to MIT economics professor and J-PAL co-director for contributions to development economics and policies to reduce poverty.
Probing graphene physics
MIT postdoc Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi charts quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene.
Object recognition for free
System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too.
3 Questions: Amanda Giang on controlling mercury pollution in India and China
MIT graduate student studies how a new U.N. treaty could affect mercury emissions from coal power plants in Asia.
Better sensors for medical imaging, contraband detection
Magnetic-field detector is 1,000 times more efficient than its predecessors.