3Q: William Bonvillian on connecting Cambridge and Capitol Hill
Through its Washington Office, MIT continues its long history of engagement on national science and technology policy.
Scientists set traps for atoms with single-particle precision
Technique may enable large-scale atom arrays for quantum computing.
Real estate innovation by the numbers
Real Estate Innovation Lab to promote the future of urban development by showing investors how it can work.
A new twist on airplane wing design
“Morphing” wing could enable more efficient plane manufacturing and flight.
Battery challenges: cost and performance
Industry speakers and MIT faculty offer solutions to problems ranging from small portable devices to large fixed installations.
Engineers design a new weapon against bacteria
Antimicrobial peptides can kill strains resistant to existing antibiotics.
Predicting cancer cells’ response to chemotherapy
Measuring DNA repair capability can reveal tumors’ sensitivity to drugs.
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives
After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.
Making computers explain themselves
New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions.
Retracing the origins of a massive, multi-ring crater
Scientists reconstruct first hours after a giant impact created one of the largest craters on the moon.
Why have solar energy costs fallen?
MIT team awarded U.S. Department of Energy grant to investigate cost reductions in solar energy systems.
Finding patterns in corrupted data
New model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with hundreds of variables.
Mapping buried magnetism
MIT researchers use an optical technique to probe magnetism at a hidden interface between two exotic thin films.