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In a graphic representation of a two-dimensional material, squeezing and stretching leads to, respectively, positive and negative signs of the anomalous Hall effect, represented by arrows. Credits:Image: Hang Chi

New quantum magnet unleashes electronics potential

MIT researchers analyzed the EEG patterns of patients under general anesthesia and found brain wave signatures that could help doctors determine when patients are transitioning into a deep state of unconsciousness known as burst suppression, which is associated with cognitive impairments after patients wake up. Credits:Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT with figures from iStock

Study finds tracking brain waves could reduce post-op complications

In the Alzheimer’s affected brain, abnormal collections of the tau protein accumulate and form tangles (seen in blue) within neurons, harming synaptic communication between nerve cells. Credits:Image: National Institute on Aging, NIH

How Tau tangles form in the brain

Caption: Deployed for the assembly of individual proteins, FrameDiff demonstrates its prowess by crafting extensive proteins with as many as 500 components. This method exhibits a significant advancement as it forges ahead, independent of the need for a pre-charted protein structure blueprint. Credits: Image: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL

AI is Shaping the Future of Biomedicine With Artificially Engineered Proteins

In a groundbreaking research paper co-authored by MIT economist Martin Beraja, it's revealed how China's escalated investments in AI-powered facial recognition technology serve a dual purpose: assisting the government in curbing dissent while simultaneously propelling technological advancements. This symbiotic scenario is termed as an "AI-Tocracy" by the authors of the paper. Image Credits: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT with figures from iStock.

MIT Study Reveals How AI Helps China’s Authoritarian Regime Stay in Control

For the first time, MIT chemists have measured the energy transfer between photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins, allowing them to discover that the disorganized arrangement of light-harvesting proteins boosts the efficiency of the energy transduction. Credits:Image: Courtesy of the researchers

Chemists discover why photosynthetic light-harvesting is so efficient

Researchers have created a system to examine how a hacker can circumvent a particular type of cybersecurity method, in an effort to determine how much secret information that attacker could steal from a computer program. Credits:Image: iStock

MIT researchers devise a way to evaluate cybersecurity methods

When some ultrathin materials undergo a “nematic transition,” their atomic lattice structure stretches in ways that unlock superconductivity (as this conceptual image shows). MIT physicists have identified how this essential nematic switch occurs in one class of superconductors.

A new switch for superconducting

:A new MIT-led study found that tailoring political ads based on one attribute of their intended audience — say, party affiliation — can be 70 percent more effective in swaying policy support than simply showing everyone the single ad that is expected to be most persuasive across the entire population. Credits:Image: Shutterstock

Election microtargeting works, just not the way people think

MIT engineers developed a metal-free, Jell-O-like material that is as soft and tough as biological tissue and can conduct electricity similarly to conventional metals. The new material, which is a type of high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel, may one day replace metals in the electrodes of medical devices. Credits:Image: Felice Frankel

Engineers develop a Jello-like, printable, metal-free electrode

MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like conditions. Pictured are the hydrogel discs swollen in water. Credits:Image: Gustav Graeber and Carlos D. Díaz-Marín

Engineers Develop Superabsorbent Material for Harvesting Water from Desert Air

MIT aeroengineers are creating a 1-megawatt electrical motor that is a stepping stone toward electrifying commercial airliners. Pictured are some industrial concepts for hybrid-electric aircraft.

Engineers Electrify Aviation Dreams: Prepare for Shockingly Powerful 1-Megawatt Motors

A new study presents evidence that 40 Hz vibration can reduce Alzheimer's disease pathology and symptoms in lab mice and improve their motor function. These images highlight reductions in the hallmark Alzheimer's disease protein phosphorylated tau (magenta) in primary somatosensory cortical neurons in Tau P301S model mice treated with 40 Hz tactile stimulation (right). An image from an untreated control is on the left.

40 Hz vibrations reduce Alzheimer’s pathology, symptoms in mouse models

Telephone wires in a tangle. Credit Pixabay.

Even lawyers find simplified legal documents easier to understand

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