Every year 40,000 women die from breast cancer in the U.S. alone. When cancers are found early, they can often be cured. Mammograms are the best test available, but they’re still imperfect a... Read more
What can we learn about emotions, the brain and behavior from a wristband? Plenty, according to a prominent MIT engineer and researcher in her plenary session address at the American Pain So... Read more
World’s most abundant polymer could rival petroleum-based plastics as source of printing feedstock. For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world’s most abundantly printed-on ma... Read more
By “programming” customized soft materials, CSAIL team can 3-D print safer, nimbler, more durable robots. Anyone who’s watched drone videos or an episode of “BattleBots” knows that robots ca... Read more
Leading US universities are pushing back against a proposed State Department rule that would bar foreign students from more research projects and classes involving information seen as vital... Read more
Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and PatternEx reduces false positives by factor of 5 Today’s security systems usuall... Read more
System from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab enables single WiFi access point that can locate users within tens of centimeters. We’ve all been there, impatiently twiddl... Read more
Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light The Microsoft Kinect was a boon to robotics researchers. The cheap, off-the-shelf depth sensor allowed them to... Read more
Grid-scale approach to rechargeable power storage gets new arsenal of possible materials Liquid metal batteries, invented by MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his students a decade ago, are a... Read more
“Lost” memories can be found In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, patients are often unable to remember recent experiences. However, a new study from MIT suggests that those memories... Read more
Battery substitutes produce current by burning fuel-coated carbon nanotubes like a fuse The batteries that power the ubiquitous devices of modern life, from smartphones and computers to elec... Read more
Ultrathin, flexible photovoltaic cells from MIT research could find many new uses Imagine solar cells so thin, flexible, and lightweight that they could be placed on almost any material or s... Read more
Rogue wave ahead Sailing history is rife with tales of monster-sized rogue waves — huge, towering walls of water that seemingly rise up from nothing to dwarf, then deluge, vessel and crew. R... Read more
MIT researchers have designed a new chip to implement neural networks. It is 10 times as efficient as a mobile GPU, so it could enable mobile devices to run powerful artificial-intelligence... Read more