MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of reactors that is driven solely by the sun.
Oct 18, 2023
Many efforts to reduce transmission of diseases like Covid-19 and the flu have focused on measures such as masking and isolation, but another useful approach is reducing the load of airborne pathogens through filtration or germicidal ultraviolet light.
Oct 17, 2023
Human sensory systems are very good at recognizing objects that we see or words that we hear, even if the object is upside down or the word is spoken by a voice we’ve never heard.
Oct 16, 2023
Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 6 million people in the United States, and there are very few FDA-approved treatments that can slow the progression of the disease.
Sep 29, 2023
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive device that is inspired by the ocean, and powered by the sun.
Sep 27, 2023
A new MIT study that focuses on a single cell in one of nature’s simplest nervous systems provides an in-depth illustration of how individual neurons can use multiple means to drive complex behaviors.
Sep 27, 2023
As 3D printers have become cheaper and more widely accessible, a rapidly growing community of novice makers are fabricating their own objects.
Sep 18, 2023
Cancer drugs known as checkpoint blockade inhibitors have proven effective for some cancer patients.
Sep 18, 2023
In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking to carbon-capture technologies to decarbonize the most stubborn industrial emitters.
Sep 7, 2023
MIT researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking ultra-low-power underwater communication system capable of transmitting signals across kilometer-scale distances.
Sep 7, 2023
Though drug developers have achieved some progress in treating Alzheimer’s disease with medicines that reduce amyloid-beta protein, other problems of the disease, including inflammation, continue unchecked.
Sep 5, 2023
MIT scientists and their colleagues have created a simple superconducting device that could transfer current through electronic devices much more efficiently than is possible today.
Aug 16, 2023
When breast cancer is diagnosed in the earliest stages, the survival rate is nearly 100 percent.
Jul 31, 2023
Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that could be used to control a robot, such as a drone or autonomous…
Jul 26, 2023
