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Megawatt Electrical Motor Designed By MIT Engineers Could Help Electrify Aviation

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

Graphene-hBN Breakthrough to Spur New LEDs, Quantum Computing

Study uncovers first method for producing high-quality, wafer-scale, single-layer hexagonal boron nitride

Carbon Monoxide Reduced to Valuable Chemical

Rice engineers’ reactor converts gas directly into acetic acid

Tumors Partially Destroyed with Sound Don’t Come Back

Technique pioneered in rats at the University of Michigan could improve outcomes for cancer and neurological conditions

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

Wearables Can Track COVID Symptoms, Other Diseases

If you become ill with COVID-19, your smartwatch can track the progression of your symptoms, and could even show how sick you become.

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.

Matter and Antimatter Seem to Respond Equally to Gravity

As part of an experiment to measure—to an extremely precise degree—the charge-to-mass ratios of protons and antiprotons, the RIKEN-led BASE collaboration at CERN, Geneva,

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.

Cancer Therapy Using On-Site Synthesis of Anticancer Drugs

An international research group at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) has successfully treated cancer in mice using metal catalysts that assemble anticancer drugs together inside the body.

Determining the Hamiltonian of Quantum Systems with Far Fewer Measurements

The energy function that governs systems of quantum particles can be determined using much fewer measurements than previously considered necessary

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.