Nine MIT students awarded 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Fellowship funds graduate studies for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants. April 13, 2021
A better nasal swab for Covid-19 testing MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products. April 8, 2021
A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors Encapsulating modified bacteria in tough hydrogel spheres prevents them from spreading genes to other microbes. April 5, 2021
A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys MIT research team finds machine learning techniques offer big advantages over standard experimental and theoretical approaches. April 1, 2021
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty Fifteen new professors join the MIT community. April 1, 2021
Tactile textiles sense movement via touch By measuring a person’s movements and poses, smart clothes developed at MIT CSAIL could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring for elder-care facilities. March 31, 2021
Synthetic mucus can mimic the real thing An MIT team has created polymers that replicate the structure of mucins, the molecules that give mucus its unique antimicrobial properties. March 30, 2021
Homing in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells A new approach to identifying useful formulations could help solve the degradation issue for these promising new lightweight photovoltaics. March 30, 2021
Big data dreams for tiny technologies MIT research combines machine learning with nanoparticle design for personalized drug delivery. March 30, 2021
Method offers inexpensive imaging at the scale of virus particles Using an ordinary light microscope, researchers can now obtain images with unprecedented accuracy. March 29, 2021
