With a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose
More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.
More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.
A newly identified process could explain a variety of natural phenomena and enable new approaches to desalination.
Using multiple observatories, astronomers directly detect tellurium in two merging neutron stars.
The findings point to faster way to detect bacteria in food, water, and clinical samples.
MIT system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density compared with current systems.
The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency.
After the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year in service, astronomers are awash in new observations that illuminate the oldest stars and galaxies.
A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstructions.
The 2D map of this “disk wind” may reveal clues to galaxy formation.
New repair techniques enable microscale robots to recover flight performance after suffering severe damage to the artificial muscles that power their wings.
Located in the new MIT Welcome Center in Building E38, the installation expresses the dynamic, vibrant culture of MIT through the medium of programmable light.
A new method can produce a hundredfold increase in light emissions from a type of electron-photon coupling, which is key to electron microscopes and other technologies.
Researchers have developed a programmable optical device for high-speed beam steering.
A new method uses optics to accelerate machine-learning computations on smart speakers and other low-power connected devices.
The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction.