A new approach could enable intuitive robotic helpers for household, workplace, and warehouse settings.

Since an MIT team introduced expansion microscopy in 2015, the technique has powered the science behind kidney disease, plant seeds,...

MIT engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles...

Chemists could use this quick computational method to design more efficient reactions that yield useful compounds, from fuels to pharmaceuticals.

Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results....

A new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy semiconductors.

Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new...

TactStyle, a system developed by CSAIL researchers, uses image prompts to replicate both the visual appearance and tactile properties of...

The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular collectives can lead to...