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MIT engineers have developed a flexible, shape-sensing sheet that digitally reconstructs its own form as it bends and twists.
The sensor is similar in principle to some motion-capture garments,...
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Until recently, when a Massachusetts shellfish warden needed to know how much rain had fallen overnight before deciding whether to close a shellfishing area, the process might look something like...
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In 2017, a man named Michael walked onto stage in front of a packed Kresge Auditorium at MIT and attempted to draw a spiral, a common test doctors use to diagnose Parkinson’s disease. His tremors,...
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Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, even a single layer of muscle cells can power through water if designed right.
In a paper appearing today in the journal Advanced...
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One of the main reasons that ovarian cancer is among the deadliest forms of cancer is timing: When doctors catch it early, the five-year survival rate can be north of 90 percent. But when doctors...
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Repeatability in engineering product design ensures that a manufacturing process performs the same way every time and allows for a working prototype to be transformed into a reliable, safe,...
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Using materials safe for human consumption, MIT researchers have created tiny batteries that could be used to power ingestible electronic devices. Such batteries could make the devices safer for...
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As we age, some of the cells in our body enter a state of senescence, in which they stop dividing but do not die. Those senescent cells can contribute to age-related disorders such as cancer, tissue...
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Warming temperatures are fueling more extreme weather-related events — catastrophic floods, severe hurricanes and cyclones, and wildfires exacerbated by drought. But the tools used by local...
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Each year, faculty and researchers across the MIT School of Engineering are recognized with prestigious awards for their contributions to research, technology, society, and education. To celebrate...
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Most human physical interaction tasks require the production of force, but there are factors, including the mechanical stability of the given task and the person’s body configuration, that can...
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The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve.
Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT,...
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MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems.
In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The...
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It’s a familiar problem for engineers: 3D scans, STL files, and AI-generated meshes provide geometry, but lack the editable sketches and features engineers rely on to modify designs and prepare them...
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The following press release was issued Sept. 1 by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
In recent years, scientists have built methods to measure a cell’s transcriptome, or all the RNA produced by...
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A new set of modular components allows users to create reconfigurable smart devices with electrical connections that keep working no matter which shape the structure forms.
This electrical modularity...
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Squid have occupied New England’s maritime imagination for centuries, from fishermen’s tales of strange tentacled creatures to the widely publicized giant squid reports along North Atlantic...
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Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire?
To answer these...
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of infectious disease deaths, claiming over 1 million lives every year. It spreads through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or exhales, and drug-...
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Anyone who’s ever wrestled with a claw machine at an arcade can appreciate the difficulty in pulling and pushing on joysticks, in just the right way, to get a mechanical arm to scoop up that one...