The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, but there’s currently no way to verify that satellites aren’t...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of...

A simple brain circuit measures objects’ distance from the body using touch signals from a rodent’s whiskers, MIT scientists find.

A USAF cadet and a Lincoln Laboratory researcher found AI chatbots can help nontechnical service members produce viable software applications...

Physicists have found signs of colliding black holes that are themselves products of previous black hole smash-ups.

A team led by MIT Energy Initiative researchers developed the HyCAT tool, enabling decision-makers to explore the cost and carbon...

New research could help prevent the formation of tiny seeds of lithium metal within the electrolyte, enabling batteries that charge...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of...

The SHASS Faculty Fellows Program, administered by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, is fostering new research projects and creating space...