A blueprint for making quantum computers easier to program

When MIT professor and now Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) member Peter Shor first…

New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance

A good shoe can make a huge difference for runners, from career marathoners to couch-to-5K first-timers.…

New study shows how universities are critical to emerging fusion industry

A new study suggests that universities have an essential role to fulfill in the continued growth…

Team engineers nanoparticles using ion irradiation to advance clean energy and fuel conversion

MIT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other…

Merging science and systems thinking to make materials more sustainable

For Professor Elsa Olivetti, tackling a problem as large and complex as climate change requires not…

Reflecting on a decade of SuperUROP at MIT

The Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or SuperUROP, is celebrating a significant milestone: 10 years of…

A new way to integrate data with physical objects

To get a sense of what StructCode is all about, says Mustafa Doğa Doğan, think of…

Canceling noise to improve quantum devices

For years, researchers have tried various ways to coax quantum bits — or qubits, the basic…

Planning algorithm enables high-performance flight

A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its…

From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove…