MIT engineers use kirigami to make ultrastrong, lightweight structures
Produced with techniques borrowed from Japanese paper-cutting, the strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties.
Produced with techniques borrowed from Japanese paper-cutting, the strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties.
Now a global community of builders of all skill levels and backgrounds, the fab lab network grew from a single maker facility at MIT.
A new way of machining microscale rotors from diamond crystal can enable ultrasensitive NMR devices for probing proteins and other materials.
Seven researchers, along with 14 additional MIT alumni, are honored for significant contributions to engineering research, practice, and education.
The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.
A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course MAS.S64 (How to Grow (Almost) Anything) leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology.
Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.
Lane leaves a lasting legacy at the Institute and on tribal communities around the country.
A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead.
Udayan Umapathi SM ’17 and Will Langford SM ’14, PhD ’19 are co-founders of a Media Lab spinoff building a full-stack platform to enable automation for genomics and genetic engineering.
History unfolds as an interdisciplinary research team uses computational tools to examine the contents of “locked” letters.
Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. A miniaturized detector can analyze trace molecules to mimic the process.
As cases increased worldwide this spring, mechanical engineers developed solutions to help slow and stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Choucri, Drennan, Fisher, Gershenfeld, Li, and Rus are recognized for their efforts to advance science.
The subunits could be robotically assembled to produce large, complex objects, including cars, robots, or wind turbine blades.