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Sometimes color helps. Sometimes it just gets in the way, says MIT's Felice Frankel
Researchers have developed a way to monitor how brain cells coordinate with each other to control specific behaviors, such as initiating movement or detecting an odor.
Architect Christoph Reinhart’s work is all about daylight and its effects: how people respond to light in buildings, and how it might be used more effectively.
MIT postdoc Katherine Mirica has designed a new type of pencil lead in which graphite is replaced with a compressed powder of carbon nanotubes.
On the intersection of her personal and professional lives
MIT researchers describe a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
MIT engineers have found a way to enhance the permeability of the skin to drugs, making transdermal drug delivery more efficient.
The associate professor of transportation and urban planning builds tools that help designers make cities cleaner and greener.
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up spills.
Scientists at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania are taking more than inspiration from nature — they’re taking ingredients.
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Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
A penny-sized rocket thruster, designed by MIT's Paulo Lozano, may soon power the smallest satellites in space.
MIT researchers have now shown that implanted cells' therapeutic properties depend on their shape, which is determined by the type of scaffold on which they are grown.
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
Researchers have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm.
MIT researchers answer a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle?
A team of researchers at MIT has discovered a way to harness the wrinkling process in a controlled and orderly way.
Researchers at MIT are using a new mathematical model to better understand how contagious diseases are spread by air travel.
Researchers at MIT and UT-Knoxville have analyzed images of Titan's river networks and determined that in some regions, rivers have created surprisingly little erosion.
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