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Graphic illustration showing blue and purple lines in the likeness of auto tail lights captured in a long exposure against a purple background. Mountains made of geometric triangle shapes appear in the background.

MIT-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable materials

The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.

March 21, 2023

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Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar

The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in earth sciences at Cambridge University.

March 3, 2023

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Student-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community

19th Microsystems Annual Research Conference reveals the next era of microsystems technologies, along with skiing and a dance party.

February 22, 2023

Rob Macfarlane stands against a machine with knobs and glass door. Macfarlane’s reflection appears on the glass door.

Making nanoparticle building blocks for new materials

Associate Professor Robert Macfarlane is uncovering design principles that allow researchers to fine-tune materials at many size scales.

February 17, 2023

Nine from MIT named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows

Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

February 16, 2023

Against a pink background, a blue and red laser beam shoot down from the top as wavey arrows. They point to a beige atomic nucleus with a gauge needle in the center pointing left, signifying spin direction.

Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”

Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.

February 15, 2023

Many polymers on white background that look like beaded necklaces made of blue and light blue molecules. Floating red molecules have a “plus sign” and some molecules are labeled with “e-.”

New polymers could enable better wearable devices

MIT engineers developed organic polymers that can efficiently convert signals from biological tissue into the electronic signals used in transistors.

February 6, 2023

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Toward new, computationally designed cybersteels

With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, MIT researchers aim to design novel high-performance steels, with potential applications including printed aircraft components and ship hulls.

February 3, 2023

Closeup of a screen has 3 layers of individual LEDs; blue on top, then green and red.

Engineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs

Stacking light-emitting diodes instead of placing them side by side could enable fully immersive virtual reality displays and higher-resolution digital screens.

February 1, 2023