With the new system, farmers could significantly cut their use of pesticides and fertilizers, saving money and reducing runoff.

The research may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for wound healing or drug delivery.

With tinier needles and fewer injections, the approach may enable new options for long-term delivery of contraceptives or treatments for diseases such as HIV.
 

MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.

In MIT’s 2025 Killian Lecture, physicist John Joannopoulos recounts highlights from a career at the vanguard of photonics research and innovation.

By studying cellular enzymes that perform difficult reactions, MIT chemist Dan Suess hopes to find new solutions to global energy challenges.

Congratulations to Giuseppe Romano, PhD, research scientist at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, on receiving a Raith Micrograph Award for his image, "Inverse Designed Thermal Energy Harvester" fabricated using MIT.nano's focused ion beam (FIB) scanning electron microscope!

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