Nylon fibers made to flex like muscles
MIT engineers find a simple and inexpensive new approach to creating bending artificial muscle fibers.
Batch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
Researchers develop a new way to create more clean water with less energy, thanks to clever timing.
Stephen Connors, leading alternative energy researcher, dies at 58
MIT researcher helped to make solar and wind power mainstream.
Data-driven diabetes management
Smart insulin-pen cap lets patients and doctors track dosage data to better manage treatment.
Re-engineering the sprinkler
New MIT research on the flow of water in flexible tubes could make irrigation technology more sustainable and cost-effective.
Why have solar energy costs fallen?
MIT team awarded U.S. Department of Energy grant to investigate cost reductions in solar energy systems.
Seeing solutions through, across continents
When a plan to improve stoves in Peru met unexpected challenges, MIT senior Sade Nabahe rose to meet them.
Ira Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91
Former head of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering is remembered for his innovation, entrepreneurship, and vision for ocean engineering.
3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
Counterintuitive “metamaterial” may enable heat-resistant circuit boards.
3Q: Leon Glicksman and John Lienhard on how to teach the unteachable
MIT professors take on problem formulation in thermal science: It can be taught, and their new book describes how.
Ten from the Department of Physics honored by the American Physical Society
Prize winners include faculty, students, and alumni from all divisions.
Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Biocompatible fibers could use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease.
Temperature difference propels droplets
Method for moving fluids on a surface may find uses in condensers, microfluidics, and de-icing.
Electron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
Study shows particle collisions may explain overheated circuits, improve thermoelectric devices.