Closing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices

A new method enables optical devices that more closely match their design specifications, boosting accuracy and efficiency.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Dec. 13, 2023 ~7 min

Researchers safely integrate fragile 2D materials into devices

The advance opens a path to next-generation devices with unique optical and electronic properties.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Dec. 8, 2023 ~8 min


Physicists trap electrons in a 3D crystal for the first time

The results open the door to exploring superconductivity and other exotic electronic states in three-dimensional materials.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Nov. 8, 2023 ~8 min

Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security

The SecureLoop search tool efficiently identifies secure designs for hardware that can boost the performance of complex AI tasks, while requiring less energy.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Oct. 30, 2023 ~9 min

New techniques efficiently accelerate sparse tensors for massive AI models

Complimentary approaches — “HighLight” and “Tailors and Swiftiles” — could boost the performance of demanding machine-learning tasks.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Oct. 30, 2023 ~10 min

Flavored vape restrictions lead to higher cigarette sales

Restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes may push young people to smoke regular cigarettes, a much more dangerous product, researchers say.

Yale • futurity
Oct. 19, 2023 ~8 min

From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges

A newly discovered type of electronic behavior could help with packing more data into magnetic memory devices.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Oct. 18, 2023 ~9 min

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

Flexible platform could produce enigmatic materials, lead to new studies of exotic phenomena.

Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Oct. 11, 2023 ~8 min


What you should (and shouldn't) do with all of your old phone chargers and other e-waste

Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world – there are things you can do to minimise your role in it.

Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton • conversation
Oct. 6, 2023 ~6 min

I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics – here's how our committee decides

The discussions in the committee are always open, frank and sometimes emotional, but never hostile.

Mats Larsson, Professor of molecular physics, Stockholm University • conversation
Oct. 5, 2023 ~6 min

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