“SensiCut,” a smart material-sensing platform for laser cutters, can differentiate between 30 materials commonly found in makerspaces and workshops.

The results may help engineers develop a way to inject drugs without needles.

Prosthetic enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat.

MIT team looks at classroom configurations and offers modifications to enhance safety during Covid-19 pandemic.

The commonplace phenomenon, now quantified for the first time, could be harnessed for many useful applications.

A new adhesive that mimics the sticky substance barnacles use to cling to rocks may offer a better way to treat traumatic injuries.

System could reclaim pure water from power plant cooling towers; at-scale prototypes tested on MIT facilities have proven effective.

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.

Interest is growing in mining the ocean for valuable metals. A new study helps gauge the extent of the impact.

A new study calculates the waste generated by N95 usage and suggests possible ways to reduce it.