A lobster’s underbelly is lined with a thin, translucent membrane that is both stretchy and surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor,...
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About a quarter of a percent of the entire gross domestic product of industrialized countries is estimated to be lost...
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office Story: https://news.mit.edu/2021/counting-pedestrian-traffic-0415 A key portion of MIT’s campus overlaps with Kendall Square, the bustling area in...
Two MIT professors have proposed a new approach to estimating the risks of exposure to Covid-19 under different indoor settings....
Ultralight bosons are hypothetical particles whose mass is predicted to be less than a billionth the mass of an electron....
By Daniel Ackerman, MIT News Video: https://youtu.be/ZAzeYPcTM78 In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. “Researchers have...
Using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen can be an effective way to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel, with...
The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen dramatically over the last three...
By Daniel Ackerman, MIT News Office Video/images/story: https://news.mit.edu/2021/sensor-soft-robots-placement-0322 There are some tasks that traditional robots — the rigid and metallic kind...
As researchers push the boundaries of battery design, seeking to pack ever greater amounts of power and energy into a...