An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
Engineers designed a tool that enables faster measurements of the condition of some nuclear reactor components, potentially extending their lifetimes.
The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.
Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.
A new method for removing the greenhouse gas from the ocean could be far more efficient than existing systems for removing it from the air.
A process that seeks feedback from human specialists proves more effective at optimization than automated systems working alone.
Fake seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels could help.
MIT engineers discover new carbonation pathways for creating more environmentally friendly concrete.
The structure of the desert birds’ belly feathers enables males to carry water over long distances to their chicks.
Applying a small voltage to the walls of algae growing tanks can prevent cloudy buildup and allow more photosynthesis to happen.
A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead.
Researchers make progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.
Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement.
MIT engineers expand the capabilities of these ultrasensitive nanoscale detectors, with potential uses for quantum computing and biological sensing.
A new way to make carbon fiber could turn refinery byproducts into high-value, ultralight structural materials for cars, aircraft, and spacecraft.
Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.
This family of crystalline compounds is at the forefront of research seeking alternatives to silicon.
Researchers have developed a biodegradable system based on silk to replace microplastics added to agricultural products, paints, and cosmetics.
A new method can produce a hundredfold increase in light emissions from a type of electron-photon coupling, which is key to electron microscopes and other technologies.
Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources.