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MIT Engineers Design A Soft, Implantable Ventilator

The new design works with the diaphragm to improve breathing.

Study: Without More Data, A Black Hole’s Origins Can Be “Spun” In Any Direction

Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.

A Healthy Wind

Health benefits of using wind energy instead of fossil fuels could quadruple if the most polluting power plants are selected for dialing down, new study finds.

Earth Can Regulate Its Own Temperature Over Millennia, New Study Finds

Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.

Saturn’s Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient, Missing Moon

A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.

Study: Astronomers Risk Misinterpreting Planetary Signals in JWST Data

Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

MIT’s MOXIE Experiment Reliably Produces Oxygen on Mars

Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.

MIT Engineers Develop Stickers That Can See Inside the Body

New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.

Physicists Harness Quantum “Time Reversal” to Measure Vibrating Atoms

A new technique could improve the precision of atomic clocks and of quantum sensors for detecting dark matter or gravitational waves.

Astronomers Detect a Radio “Heartbeat” Billions of Light-Years from Earth

The clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts may originate from a distant neutron star.

Physicists See Electron Whirlpools for the First Time

Long predicted but never observed, this fluid-like electron behavior could be leveraged for low-power next-generation electronics.

Porosity of the Moon’s Crust Reveals Bombardment History

The moon sustained twice as many impacts as can be seen on its surface, scientists find.

MIT Engineers Devise a Recipe for Improving Any Autonomous Robotic System

A new general-purpose optimizer can speed up the design of walking robots, self-driving vehicles, and other autonomous systems.

Ultrathin Fuel Cell Uses the Body’s Own Sugar to Generate Electricity

Engineers have developed a glucose power source that could fuel miniature implants and sensors.

Physicists Embark on a Hunt for a Long-Sought Quantum Glow

A new approach could make it possible to detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions of years.