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At a historic meeting held Monday at Harvard Medical School, more than 80 clinicians and scientists, including MIT researchers, came together to commit to a Covid-19 response. Those in attendance set in motion a plan to break down institutional barriers and form a consortium to develop diagnostic tools, treatments, and vaccines with utmost urgency for this new coronavirus epidemic.

Study reveals a mechanism that plants can use to dissipate excess sunlight as heat.

System “recruits” defects that usually cause disruptions, using them to instead carry out quantum operations.

The Department of Chemistry’s Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory has been awarded the 2020 SafetyStratus College and University Health and Safety Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS gives this award in recognition of the most comprehensive chemical safety programs in higher undergraduate education.

A weeklong integrated photonics bootcamp, offered at MIT as part of its work with the manufacturing institute AIM Photonics, provided students with the opportunity to solve problems using lab equipment to test passive photonic chips, preparing them for challenges they could face on the job.

Method with polarized light can create and measure nonsymmetrical states in a layered material.

Angela Belcher found a way to turn nature's zombies into a tiny assembly line. But creating a new power cell might be just the beginning.

Aerogels for solar devices and windows are more transparent than glass.

Most materials have a fixed ability to conduct heat, but applying voltage to this thin film changes its thermal properties drastically.