MIT Innovation: Soft Optical Fibers That Block Peripheral Nerve Pain
The fibers could help with testing treatments for nerve-related pain. Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at…
The fibers could help with testing treatments for nerve-related pain. Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at…
A newly discovered type of electronic behavior from a five-layer graphene sandwich could help with packing more data into magnetic memory devices. Ordinary pencil lead…
A new flexible platform could produce enigmatic materials and lead to new studies of exotic phenomena. In research that could jump-start interest into an enigmatic…
The MIT spinout Silverthread helps companies transform complex codebases into modular systems that can be changed or updated without headaches. As a software engineer, Dan…
Study finds that in worms, the HSN neuron uses multiple chemicals and connections to orchestrate egg-laying and locomotion over the course of several minutes. A…
MIT researchers show how topology can help create magnetism at higher temperatures. Researchers who have been working for years to understand electron arrangement, or topology,…
The NASA mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a…
For his work on techniques to generate quantum dots of uniform size and color, Bawendi is honored along with Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov. Moungi…
MIT scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability. If you could sink through the Earth’s crust, you might hear, with…
Inspired by physics, a new generative model PFGM++ outperforms diffusion models in image generation. Generative AI, which is currently riding a crest of popular discourse,…
This technology for storing and transmitting quantum information over lossy links could provide the foundation for scalable quantum networking. The popular children’s game of telephone…
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the chatbot. Someone’s prior beliefs…
With a new, user-friendly interface, researchers can quickly design many cellular metamaterial structures that have unique mechanical properties. Engineers are constantly searching for materials with…
The device contains encapsulated cells that produce insulin, plus a tiny oxygen-producing factory that keeps the cells healthy. One promising approach to treating Type 1…
By analyzing epigenomic and gene expression changes that occur in Alzheimer’s disease, researchers identify cellular pathways that could become new drug targets. Alzheimer’s disease affects…
A More Effective Experimental Design for Engineering a Cell Into a New State MIT and Harvard researchers have developed a novel computational technique that can…
The small molecule, now in clinical trials, increases activity of immune cells and sensitivity of tumors to immune attack. Cancer immunotherapy drugs called PD-1 inhibitors…
Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of…