Plant sensors could act as an early warning system for farmers
Sensors that detect plant signaling molecules can reveal when crops are experiencing too much light or heat, or attack from insects or microbes.
Sensors that detect plant signaling molecules can reveal when crops are experiencing too much light or heat, or attack from insects or microbes.
In research that may lead to next-generation airplanes and spacecraft, MIT engineers used carbon nanotubes to prevent cracking in multilayered composites.
Associate Professor Jeehwan Kim is exploring systems that could take over where silicon leaves off.
The method lets researchers identify and control larger numbers of atomic-scale defects, to build a bigger system of qubits.
High-speed experiments can help identify lightweight, protective “metamaterials” for spacecraft, vehicles, helmets, or other objects.
A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres, which the James Webb Space Telescope can detect, could be a signature of habitability.
An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years.
Thin flakes of graphite can be tuned to exhibit three important properties.
Desirée Plata is on a lifelong mission to make sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions.
A newly discovered type of electronic behavior could help with packing more data into magnetic memory devices.
Flexible platform could produce enigmatic materials, lead to new studies of exotic phenomena.
The findings, based on a single electrochemical process, could help cut emissions from the hardest-to-decarbonize industries, such as steel and cement.
By fine-tuning the spin density in some materials, researchers may be able to develop new quantum sensors or quantum simulations.
Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources.
The device detects the same molecules that cell receptors do, and may enable routine early screening for cancers and other diseases.