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Engineered plant nanosensors and portable Raman spectroscopy will help enable sustainable practices in traditional and urban agriculture.

The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles.

MIT junior faculty explore new research directions and achieve powerful career advancement enabled by J-WAFS’ mission-driven grant program focused on water and food solutions.

Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. A miniaturized detector can analyze trace molecules to mimic the process.

MIT researchers are developing a superconducting nanowire, which could enable more efficient superconducting electronics.

Read more at MIT News.

PhD student and 2017 J-WAFS graduate fellow Tzu-Chieh Tang designs living materials to solve environmental challenges, with an emphasis on safety and scalability.

Unconventional form of ferroelectricity could impact next-generation computing.

New technique reveals many possible conformations that a protein may take.

Cutting edge-tool reserved exclusively for students is fast, efficient, and environmentally friendly.

Read more at MIT News.