Toward hack-proof RFID chips
New technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods in warehouses.
Curing disease by repairing faulty genes
New delivery method boosts efficiency of CRISPR genome-editing system.
Structure of kerogen revealed
Nanopores may be trapping oil and gas in the ancient hydrocarbon instead of allowing them to flow.
New chip fabrication approach
Depositing different materials within a single chip layer could lead to more efficient computers.
Self-stacking nanogrids
Polymer nanowires that assemble in perpendicular layers could offer route to tinier chip components.
Scientists tune polymer material’s transparency
Material may offer cheaper alternative to smart windows.
Physicists control electrons at femtosecond timescales
Results may help improve efficiency of solar cells, energy-harvesting devices.
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting.
Switchable material could enable new memory chips
Small voltage can flip thin film between two crystal states — one metallic, one semiconducting.
Local boy makes good
Michael Watts took two decades to make the 20-mile trip from suburban Hingham to tenure at MIT.
Synthetic antibody detects proteins
New nanosensors recognize fibrinogen; may detect insulin, other biomarkers as well.
Larissa Senatus learns about the world by doing
Mechanical engineering major hopes to bring hands-on learning opportunities home to Haiti.
Concentrating dawn-to-dusk solar energy
MOSAIC award spurs MIT research into concentrator solar cells that can run in shade and full sun with power control and wavelength separation.
A nanophotonic comeback for incandescent bulbs?
Researchers combine the warm look of traditional light bulbs with 21st-century energy efficiency.