The future of motorcycles could be hydrogen

MIT Electric Vehicle Team builds a unique hydrogen fuel cell–powered electric motorcycle.

MIT Energy Initiative • mit
Jan. 10, 2024 ~9 min

Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids

Study finds chiral structures, with mirror-image configurations, can emerge from nonchiral systems, suggesting new ways to engineer these materials.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Jan. 8, 2024 ~8 min


Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity

Swallowing the device before a meal could create a sense of fullness, tricking the brain into thinking it’s time to stop eating.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
Dec. 22, 2023 ~8 min

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

MIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart’s right chamber

The realistic model could aid the development of better heart implants and shed light on understudied heart disorders.

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

Immune action at a distance

MIT and MGH researchers design a local, gel-based drug-delivery platform that may provoke a system-wide immune response to metastatic tumors.

Bendta Schroeder | Koch Institute • mit
Nov. 30, 2023 ~10 min

With a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose

More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Nov. 30, 2023 ~8 min

Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients

The new sensor measures heart and breathing rate from patients with sleep apnea and could also be used to monitor people at risk of opioid overdose.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
Nov. 17, 2023 ~7 min


New laser setup probes metamaterial structures with ultrafast pulses

The LIRAS technique could speed up the development of acoustic lenses, impact-resistant films, and other futuristic materials.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Nov. 15, 2023 ~8 min

2023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health

Thirteen new graduate student fellows will pursue exciting new paths of knowledge and discovery.

School of Engineering • mit
Nov. 2, 2023 ~18 min

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