Desirée Plata, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, has been named co-director of…
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Making life friendlier with personal robots
“As a child, I wished for a robot that would explain others’ emotions to me” says…
Jackson Jewett wants to design buildings that use less concrete
After three years leading biking tours through U.S. National Parks, Jackson Jewett decided it was time…
Technologies for water conservation and treatment move closer to commercialization
The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) provides Solutions Grants to help MIT…
Canceling noise to improve quantum devices
For years, researchers have tried various ways to coax quantum bits — or qubits, the basic…
Bringing sustainable and affordable electricity to all
When MIT electrical engineer Reja Amatya PhD ’12 arrived in Rwanda in 2015, she was whisked…
Planning algorithm enables high-performance flight
A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its…
Study finds a surprising new role for a major immune regulator
A signaling protein known as STING is a critical player in the human immune system, detecting…