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...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials —...

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

Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run...

At first, life on Earth was simple. Cells existed, functioned and reproduced as free-living individuals. But then, something remarkable happened....

Last spring, a team of nearly 1,000 cosmologists announced that dark energy — the enigmatic agent propelling the universe to...

It’s difficult to build devices that replicate the fluid, precise motion of humans, but that might change if we could...

Within the human brain, a network of regions has evolved to process language. These regions are consistently activated whenever people...

Prototyping large structures with integrated electronics, like a chair that can monitor someone’s sitting posture, is typically a laborious and...