4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (556+ words) New "MorphoChrome" software from MIT helps users create iridescent designs that can be applied to everyday items using a handheld device. The hardware "paints" with multi-color light onto holographic film, which can be applied to 3D-printed objects or flexible substrates....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (231+ words) Q: What drew you to research microbes in extreme environments, and what are the challenges in studying them?" Q: Given how diverse microbes are and how little we understand about them, how can studying microbes in silico, using genomic language modeling, advance…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (433+ words) A number of advanced energy technologies " including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and an emerging class of low-power electronics " use protons as the key charge carrier. Whether or not these devices will be widely adopted hinges, in part, on how efficiently they…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (864+ words) MIT researchers have developed a new fabrication method that could enable the production of more energy efficient electronics by stacking multiple functional components on top of one existing circuit. In traditional circuits, logic devices that perform computation, like transistors, and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (905+ words) A spray-on coating to keep power lines standing through an ice storm may not be the obvious fix for winter outages " but it's exactly the kind of innovation that happens when MIT students tackle a sustainability challenge. To address the…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (835+ words) Ernest Opoku knew he wanted to become a scientist when he was a little boy. But his school in Dadease, a small town in Ghana, offered no elective science courses " so Opoku created one for himself. Even though they had…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (596+ words) Studying how humans produced such objects is challenging because little evidence still exists, and artifacts that have survived are carefully guarded and preserved. "Even though slag might not give us the complete picture, it tells stories of how past civilizations…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (327+ words) MIT student Jacqueline Prawira's invention, a biodegradable plastic made from fishing industry waste, tackles one of the world's most pressing environmental challenges and was recently featured on CBS's "The Visioneers." Sometimes the answers to seemingly intractable environmental problems are found…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (893+ words) MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the possibility that it could be used as a protective coating to prevent solar cells and other infrastructure from corrosion, and to slow the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (498+ words) Researchers in MIT's McGuire Group discovered more than 100 different molecules floating in the Taurus Molecular Cloud-1 " more than in any other known interstellar cloud. The discovery will help researchers understand how chemicals form and change before stars and planets are…...