Researchers design new experiments to map and test the quantum realm

Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
May 19, 2021 ~7 min

How cleaning up coolants can cool the climate – why HFCs are getting phased out from refrigerators and air conditioners

HFCs keep refrigerators cool, but when these short-lived climate pollutants leak, they warm the planet. The US EPA has a plan to phase them out, but what will replace them?

Scott Denning, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University • conversation
May 4, 2021 ~8 min


New tool developed to study ‘undruggable’ proteins

Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
April 16, 2021 ~7 min

A method to assess Covid-19 transmission risks in indoor settings

MIT researchers have developed a publicly available model based on physics and data from past spreading events.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
April 15, 2021 ~10 min

Male fertility: how everyday chemicals are destroying sperm counts in humans and animals

Our chemical environment appears responsible for an alarming plummet in sperm counts – in humans and in animals.

Gary Hutchison, Professor of Toxicology and Dean of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University • conversation
April 14, 2021 ~9 min

Big data dreams for tiny technologies

MIT research combines machine learning with nanoparticle design for personalized drug delivery.

Bendta Schroeder | Erika Reinfeld | Koch Institute • mit
March 30, 2021 ~8 min

Harvard researchers engineer proteins

Researchers prove they can engineer proteins to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential new treatments to help neuroregeneration, cytokine storm.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
March 4, 2021 ~7 min

SMART develops analytical tools to enable next-generation agriculture

Engineered plant nanosensors and portable Raman spectroscopy will help enable sustainable practices in traditional and urban agriculture.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
March 1, 2021 ~9 min


What are phthalates, and how do they put children's health at risk?

Scientists issued an urgent call for better federal regulation of these endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Here's why.

Stephanie Eick, Postdoctoral Researcher in Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco • conversation
Feb. 26, 2021 ~6 min

Physicists discover important new property for graphene

Unconventional form of ferroelectricity could impact next-generation computing.

Elizabeth Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Feb. 8, 2021 ~8 min

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