Carbon nanotube film produces aerospace-grade composites with no need for huge ovens or autoclaves.

The MIT assistant professor is entranced by the beauty she finds pursuing chemistry.

MIT graduate student Seth Cazzell shows controlling pH enables reversible hydrogel formation in wider range of metal concentrations.

Substituting lumber for materials such as cement and steel could cut building emissions and costs.

Muscle relaxants delivered to the ureter can reduce contractions that cause pain when passing a stone.

Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat.

New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say.

Techniques for observing concrete as it sets could facilitate the development of new cements.

MIT and University of Colorado researchers are collaborating on an experiment to be sent to the International Space Station.

The X-ray-focusing lens used in the experiment is based on a design used in lighthouses for centuries.