Mixing solids and liquids enhances optical properties of both
New approach can dramatically change the extent to which optical devices scatter light.
Scientists observe supermassive black hole feeding on cold gas
Findings suggest two dining styles for black holes.
Using engineering savvy to improve product designs
From windmills to software, graduate student Ned Burnell creates better tools.
A new approach to chemical synthesis
Communesins, originally found in fungus, could hold potential as cancer drugs.
MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings
Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.
New method snips complex fibers into uniform particles
Stretching process can produce nanoscale rods or strips made of many material combinations.
Physicists predict previously unseen phenomena in exotic materials
Better understanding of topological semimetals could help usher in future electronics.
A method to image black holes
New algorithm could stitch together astronomical measurements made across the globe.
Gene circuits in live cells can perform complex computations
Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells.
New CRISPR system for targeting RNA
Scientists program C2c2, discovered in bacteria as a viral defense mechanism, to manipulate cellular RNA.
Rainer Weiss wins Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
LIGO inventor shares award for direct detection of gravitational waves.
Rainer Weiss awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Physics professor emeritus shares prize with Caltech's Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever for designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
“Super Mario Brothers” is hard
Analysis shows popular video game is among the hardest problems in the “complexity class” PSPACE.
Scrutinizing radiation’s impact
Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Cody Dennett simulates conditions inside reactors to measure microscopic defects in irradiated materials.