More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many archeologists previously thought.
A new understanding of how particle shape controls grain flow could help engineers manage river restoration and coastal erosion.
An unmanned semi-submersible vehicle developed at Washington State University may prove that the best way to travel in water undetected and efficiently is not on top, or below, but in-between.
Researchers have demonstrated directional photon emission, the first step toward extensible quantum interconnects.
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.
Built on recent advances in machine learning, the model predicts how well individuals will produce and comprehend sentences.
Groundbreaking research can help alleviate the challenges affiliated with studying carbohydrates.
Using this approach, researchers can map how light spreads in opaque environments.
MIT researchers are discovering which parts of the brain are engaged when a person evaluates a computer program.
Made from inexpensive, abundant materials, an aluminum-sulfur battery could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources.
Field experiment in Bangladesh shows the poor simply lack opportunities to gain wealth — but a one-time boost can make a major difference.
With a tensor language prototype, “speed and correctness do not have to compete ... they can go together, hand-in-hand.”
Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.
The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions.
The design could someday enable a fully decarbonized power grid, researchers say.
MIT researchers report early-stage clinical study results of tests with noninvasive 40-hertz light and sound treatment.
The new design works with the diaphragm to improve breathing.
In evolutionary terms what happens when a terrestrial organism adapts to a marine environment? The recent discovery of a unique fossil turtle provides an unusual example of one such organism in transition from land to sea.
Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.
A new optogenetics-based tool allows researchers to control how neurons respond to electrical input.