“Robotic” textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes.

After nearly a decade, an interdisciplinary collaboration to model a 3D spider web leads to many surprising results.

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

“Programmable matter” technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease.

Animators spend hours adding textures to objects. A new machine-learning system simplifies the process.

A team from MIT helped create an image retrieval system to find the closest matches of paintings from different artists and cultures.

Translated into sound, SARS-CoV-2 tricks our ear in the same way the virus tricks our cells.

A cohort of transdisciplinary researchers will study the effects of sustained microgravity.

Algorithm enables one audio signal to glide into another, recreating the “portamento” effect of some musical instruments.

Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials.