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MechE researchers offer a roadmap for the future of metamaterials.

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Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

Solving a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion

Study finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch

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DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions

A team led by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn shows a new universal descriptor for removal of nitrogen monoxide.

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February 9, 2026 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint

Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint

February 8, 2026 A quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat

A quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat

February 5, 2026 “This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio

MIT faculty join GBH’s Boston Public Radio's "The Curiosity Desk"

February 4, 2026 Nature Electronics Commentary: The potential of miniaturized ingestible electronics

The potential of miniaturized ingestible electronics

February 3, 2026 3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design

3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design

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Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature

Associate Professor Sangbae Kim describes his cutting-edge research in the area of biomimetics, the study of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots.

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Design for the Developing World

In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, MIT students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way – from ambulances in Tanzania to an irrigation pump in Nepal.

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