New Battery Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide
Plug-and-Play Technology Automates Chemical Synthesis
Machine-Learning System Tackles Speech and Object Recognition, All at Once
Helping Computers Fill in the Gaps Between Video Frames
Given only a few frames of a video, humans can usually surmise what is happening and will happen on screen. If we see an early frame of stacked cans, a middle frame with a finger at the stack’s base, and a late frame showing the cans toppled over, we can guess that the finger knocked…
New Sensors Track Dopamine in the Brain For More Than Year
More Efficient Security for Cloud-Based Machine Learning
Cell-Sized Robots Can Sense Their Environment
Study of High-Energy Neutrinos Again Proves Einstein Right
Could Gravitational Waves Reveal How Fast our Universe is Expanding?
‘Blind’ Cheetah 3 Robot Can Climb Stairs Littered With Obstacles
MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind. The 90-pound mechanical beast — about the size of a full-grown Labrador — is intentionally designed to do all this without relying on…
Low-Cost Prosthetic Foot Mimics Natural Walking
Prosthetic limb technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, giving amputees a range of bionic options, including artificial knees controlled by microchips, sensor-laden feet driven by artificial intelligence, and robotic hands that a user can manipulate with her mind. But such high-tech designs can cost tens of thousands of dollars, making them unattainable for many…
Nearly 80 Exoplanet Candidates Identified in Record Time
Algorithm Speeds Up Process for Analyzing 3D Medical Images
MIT Engineers Recruit Microbes to Help Fight Cholera
Novel Transmitter Protects Wireless Devices From Hackers
New Algorithm Keeps Data Fresh in Wireless Networks
Wireless System Can Power Devices Inside the Body
MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver drugs, monitor conditions inside the body, or treat disease by stimulating the brain with electricity or light. The implants are powered…
Device Allows a Personal Computer to Process Huge Graphs
In data-science parlance, graphs are structures of nodes and connecting lines that are used to map scores of complex data relationships. Analyzing graphs is useful for a broad range of applications, such as ranking webpages, analyzing social networks for political insights, or plotting neuron structures in the brain. Consisting of billions of nodes and lines,…
AI-Based Method Could Speed Development of Specialized Nanoparticles
A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for use in displays, cloaking systems, or biomedical devices. It may also help physicists tackle a variety of thorny research problems, in ways that could in some cases be orders of magnitude faster than existing…
Researchers Work to Teach Chores to an AI
For many people, household chores are a dreaded, inescapable part of life that we often put off or do with little care – but what if a robot maid could help lighten the load? Recently, computer scientists have been working on teaching machines to do a wider range of tasks around the house. In a…
Engineers Design Color-Changing Compression Bandage
Compression therapy is a standard form of treatment for patients who suffer from venous ulcers and other conditions in which veins struggle to return blood from the lower extremities. Compression stockings and bandages, wrapped tightly around the affected limb, can help to stimulate blood flow. But there is currently no clear way to gauge whether…
Tiny Particles Could Help Fight Brain Cancer
Ingestible ‘Bacteria on a Chip’ Could Help Diagnose Disease
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stomach or other gastrointestinal problems. This “bacteria-on-a-chip” approach combines sensors made from living cells with ultra-low-power electronics that convert the bacterial response into a wireless signal that can be read by a smartphone. “By combining engineered biological…