New law for superconductors
Mathematical description of relationship between thickness, temperature, and resistivity could spur advances.
In a body that rebels, the search for a delicate balance
Rhodes Scholar Elliot Akama-Garren seeks to harness the power of the immune system to combat cancer.
New findings could point the way to “valleytronics”
Researchers clear hurdles toward a new kind of 2-D microchip using different electron properties.
Lincoln Laboratory team takes honors at Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop
The laboratory's technology for automatic assessment of depression severity earns a second consecutive first place in AVEC subchallenge.
What really killed the dinosaurs?
Before an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, Earth experienced a short burst of intense volcanism.
Picower neuroscientists reveal fundamental discovery about cortical neurons
Inhibitory neuron functionality is not an immutable property of cortical cells, but a consequence of more complex network dynamics.
Detecting gases wirelessly and cheaply
New sensor can transmit information on hazardous chemicals or food spoilage to a smartphone.
Potash: Historical pathways to development
Diversity of sources and sustainable production methods are needed to meet world potassium fertilizer demand.
Computers that teach by example
New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans.
3 Questions: Ben Weiss on the lunar dynamo
The moon’s molten, churning core likely once generated a dynamo.
Report details steps needed to accelerate innovation at MIT
New Innovation Initiative aims to reshape the role of the university in the 21st-century economy.
Computer model enables design of complex DNA shapes
Engineers computer-design the most complicated 3-D structures ever made from DNA.