To guide cancer therapy, device quickly tests drugs on tumor tissue

Inexpensive 3-D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 12, 2018 ~9 min

Accelerating 3-D printing

Researchers have designed a novel printhead that works with unprecedented speed and pioneered ways to melt and extrude renewable materials.

Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative • mit
Nov. 29, 2018 ~16 min


Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power

Researchers uncover the factors that have caused photovoltaic module costs to drop by 99 percent.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 20, 2018 ~7 min

Inside these fibers, droplets are on the move

Fibers containing systems for mixing, separating, and testing fluids may open up new possibilities for medical screening.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 29, 2018 ~9 min

On-chip optical filter processes wide range of light wavelengths | MIT News

Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices.

Rob Matheson' | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 1, 2018 ~9 min

Let it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof | MIT News

MIT-developed process could offer nontoxic alternative to environmentally harmful chemicals.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
June 29, 2018 ~6 min

New system recovers fresh water from power plants | MIT News

Technology captures water evaporating from cooling towers; prototype to be installed on MIT’s Central Utility Plant.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
June 8, 2018 ~8 min

A graphene roll-out | MIT News

Scalable manufacturing process spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
April 17, 2018 ~8 min


AFFOA and VMS launch Advanced Fabrics Entrepreneurship Program | MIT News

Year-long program will give early-stage entrepreneurs a leg up in the functional fabrics industry.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
April 13, 2018 ~8 min

MIT-Boeing educational collaboration aims to scale learning in additive manufacturing | MIT News

New online course will enable professionals to invent and implement innovative 3-D-printing applications.

MIT Open Learning • mit
April 12, 2018 ~6 min

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