Getting the world off dirty diesels
Gasoline-alcohol engines for heavy-duty trucks could produce a meaningful improvement in global air quality.
MIT engineers recruit microbes to help fight cholera
Probiotic bacteria can diagnose, prevent, and treat infections.
Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
New printing technique could be used to develop remotely controlled biomedical devices.
Artificial intelligence senses people through walls
Wireless smart-home system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could monitor diseases and help the elderly “age in place.”
A new way to mend a broken heart
“Therepi” device attaches directly to damaged heart, enabling delivery of medicine from a port under a patient’s skin to augment cardiac function.
Novel transmitter protects wireless data from hackers
Device uses ultrafast “frequency hopping” and data encryption to protect signals from being intercepted and jammed.
MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence
Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.
A better device for measuring electromagnetic radiation
New bolometer is faster, simpler, and covers more wavelengths.
The quantum choreographer
Using diamond dust and laser light to control atomic spin, Ashok Ajoy PhD ’16 pursues alternatives to costly conventional imaging technologies.
New system recovers fresh water from power plants
Technology captures water evaporating from cooling towers; prototype to be installed on MIT’s Central Utility Plant.
Decoding RNA-protein interactions
Scientists leverage one step, unbiased method to characterize the binding preferences of more than 70 human RNA-binding proteins.
3 Questions: Roger Summons on finding organic matter on Mars
Discovery adds to evidence suggesting that Mars was at one time habitable.
Network of diverse noncoding RNAs acts in the brain
Scientists identify the first known network consisting of three types of regulatory RNAs.
Protein pair quickly makes memories of new places
MIT researchers find that encountering novel contexts cues the brain to churn out neurogranin.