A rare but potent genetic mutation that alters a protein in the brain’s immune cells, known…
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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…
Boosting rocket reliability at the material level
The success of the SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle has been one of the most…
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…
Rewarding excellence in open data
The second annual MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 cash prize, was recently…
Reflecting on a decade of SuperUROP at MIT
The Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or SuperUROP, is celebrating a significant milestone: 10 years of…
To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
ChatGPT and other deep generative models are proving to be uncanny mimics. These AI supermodels can…
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…
New qubit circuit enables quantum operations with higher accuracy
In the future, quantum computers may be able to solve problems that are far too complex…