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Fermi Space Telescope Offers 'Best Look Ever' at Giant Flare

Brilliant magnetar eruption in neighboring galaxy could aid search in the Milky Way

Megawatt Electrical Motor Designed By MIT Engineers Could Help Electrify Aviation

Technology demonstrations show the machine’s major components achieve the required performance.

Carbon Monoxide Reduced to Valuable Chemical

Rice engineers’ reactor converts gas directly into acetic acid

New Findings Reveal How The Brain’s Memory Center Filters Out Unimportant Details

A study in mice that sheds light on how the brain remembers key details could one day help treat disorders impacting memory

MIT Researchers Make Language Models Scalable Self-Learners

The scientists used a natural language-based logical inference dataset to create smaller language models that outperformed much larger counterparts.

Rice ‘Flashes’ New 2d Materials

Metastable metallic nanoparticles could find use in electronics, optics

2D Compound Shows Unique Versatility

Multifunctional nanomaterial proposed by Rice could enhance solar energy, quantum computing

New Model Offers A Way To Speed Up Drug Discovery

By applying a language model to protein-drug interactions, researchers can quickly screen large libraries of potential drug compounds.

Embracing Life’s Surprises

Unexpected experimental results often give Associate Professor Cem Tasan new insights into how metals break and deform — and how to design damage-resistant alloys.

Simple Bioreactor Makes ‘Gut Check’ More Practical

Rice, Baylor device mimics intestines to show how invading bacteria cause disease

Turning Food Waste Back Into Food

Fermenting used food can improve crop growth

A Step Toward Safe And Reliable Autopilots For Flying

A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.

Advancing Material Innovation To Address The Polymer Waste Crisis

MIT researchers work to discover biodegradable polyesters, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, J-WAFS, and DIC Corp.

A Clean Alternative To One Of The World’s Most Common Ingredients

C16 Biosciences, founded by MIT alumni, has developed a microbial oil to replace palm oil, whose production reaps environmental devastation.

This Salty Gel Could Harvest Water From Desert Air

A new material developed by MIT engineers exhibits “record-breaking” vapor absorption.

Discovery May Lead to Terahertz Technology for Quantum Sensing

Metal oxide’s properties could enable wide range of terahertz frequency photonics

Device Makes Hydrogen from Sunlight with Record Efficiency

New standard for green hydrogen technology set by Rice U. engineers

MIT Engineers Develop A Soft, Printable, Metal-Free Electrode

A new Jell-O-like material could replace metals as electrical interfaces for pacemakers, cochlear implants, and other electronic implants.

Neuws Camera Answers ‘Holy Grail Problem’ in Optical Imaging

Rice, Maryland engineers overcome ‘light scattering’ with full-motion video