Upending a long-held supposition, MIT researchers find a common catalyst works by cycling between two different forms.

The research may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for wound healing or drug delivery.

To deal with microplastic pollution, it helps agencies to know what kind of plastic they’ve got on their hands.

For the past decade, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab has strengthened MIT faculty efforts in water and food research and innovation.

Addressing the harmful chemical processes that accompany blunt force trauma to the brain can reduce the risk of long-term disability.

They combined a blend of slimy and sticky proteins to produce a fast-acting, bacteria-blocking, waterproof adhesive for use in biomedical applications.

Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic structure.

A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.