New general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales
Findings reported by MIT researchers may have significant implications in material design.
Findings reported by MIT researchers may have significant implications in material design.
Gifted Caribbean high schoolers become SPISE alumni at MIT, and many go on to advanced academic and professional careers.
Junior Shreya Mogulothu says taking an MITx class as a high school student opened her eyes to new possibilities.
MIT professors Iain Stewart and Roberto Fernandez are “Committed to Caring”
The advance holds the promise to reduce error-correction resource overhead.
The work opens new avenues for understanding and manipulating electrons in materials.
Their source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge, MIT astronomers report.
MIT physicists develop a predictive formula, based on bacterial communities, that may also apply to other types of ecosystems, including the human GI tract.
The fleeting cosmic firework likely emerged from the turbulent magnetosphere around a far-off neutron star.
Five MIT faculty and staff, along with 19 additional alumni, are honored for electrical engineering and computer science advances.
The technique provides researchers with a powerful tool for controlling magnetism, and could help in designing faster, smaller, more energy-efficient memory chips.
Longtime MIT faculty member used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.
New work suggests the ability to create fractionalized electrons known as non-Abelian anyons without a magnetic field, opening new possibilities for basic research and future applications.
Physicists surprised to discover electrons in pentalayer graphene can exhibit fractional charge. New study suggests how this could work.
Event at MIT featured an array of national and international speakers including a Nobel laureate, leaders in industry, and in entertainment.