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Mar 16 | News
The features on computer chips are getting so small that soon the process used to make them, which has hardly changed in the last 50 years, won’t work anymore. One of the alternatives that academic researchers have been exploring is to create tiny circuits using molecules that automatically arrange themselves into useful patterns.
Mar 15 | News
Silks are among the toughest materials known, stronger and less brittle, pound for pound, than steel. Now scientists at MIT have unraveled some of their deepest secrets in research that could lead the way to the creation of synthetic materials that duplicate, or even exceed, the extraordinary properties of natural silk.
Mar 9 | News
A team of engineers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are working on tiny, low-power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients.
Mar 8 | News
Carbon nanotubes with a special coating of reactive fuel can, when ignited, create a thermal wave that not only spreads quickly but also pushes electrons along the tube, creating a substantial electric current. The energy created by MIT engineers far exceeds that predicted by thermoelectric calculations.
Mar 8 | News
Most polymers—materials made of long, chain-like molecules—are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator.
Mar 3 | News
Phytoplankton are single-celled organisms that serve as the base of the marine food web and provide half the oxygen we breathe on Earth. They also play a key role in global climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and injecting it deep into the oceans.
Mar 1 | News
MIT researchers have discovered a way to make microelectromechanical devices, or MEMS, by stamping them onto a plastic film. This discovery should reduce their cost, and open up the possibility of large sheets of sensors that could, one day, cover the wings of an airplane to gauge their structural integrity.
Feb 24 | News
Peter Behr of ClimateWire wrote yesterday about a new type of nuclear reactor pioneered by a former Bechtel Corp. physicist John Gilleland. He and his company, TerraPower LLC, have developed the traveling wave reactor concept, which has now attracted DOE attention. The venture already has help from Argonne Lab and MIT.
Feb 11 | News
It can be inconvenient to replace batteries in devices that need to work over long periods of time. But new technology being developed by MIT researchers could make such replacements unnecessary.
Feb 9 | News
To meet the challenge of interpreting cell image data, a team of researchers developed a novel computational model to identify genetic interactions using high-dimensional morphological data. Integrating very basic prerequisite knowledge of a pathway, their model maps potential interactions within a network by looking for similar morphological features upon genetic perturbation.