A new online platform helps engineers look beyond survival mode when designing habitats for extreme living conditions.

MIT historian Tristan Brown uncovers the true origins of an artifact once thought to be a relic of the Boston...

From Broadway to MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science, PhD student Jessica Fry doesn’t do anything halfway. Now she’s hunting for...

“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind...

Acting as cooperative optical beacons, the satellites could provide GPS-like navigation and communications support for spacecraft operating across cislunar space.

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the...

Their new study aims to give budding industry a framework for understanding how fusion can be profitable.

A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat...

The study could help scientists understand how superconductivity and other more complex phenomena emerge in quantum materials.

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole...