Self-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy

A system designed at MIT could allow sensors to operate in remote settings, without batteries.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Jan. 18, 2024 ~9 min

Researchers safely integrate fragile 2D materials into devices

The advance opens a path to next-generation devices with unique optical and electronic properties.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Dec. 8, 2023 ~8 min


New techniques efficiently accelerate sparse tensors for massive AI models

Complimentary approaches — “HighLight” and “Tailors and Swiftiles” — could boost the performance of demanding machine-learning tasks.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Oct. 30, 2023 ~10 min

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

Flexible platform could produce enigmatic materials, lead to new studies of exotic phenomena.

Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Oct. 11, 2023 ~8 min

New qubit circuit enables quantum operations with higher accuracy

The advance brings quantum error correction a step closer to reality.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Sept. 25, 2023 ~10 min

Canceling noise to improve quantum devices

MIT researchers develop a protocol to extend the life of quantum coherence.

Peter Reuell | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering • mit
Sept. 6, 2023 ~11 min

Machine-learning system based on light could yield more powerful, efficient large language models

MIT system demonstrates greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density compared with current systems.

Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Aug. 22, 2023 ~7 min

Magnetic robots walk, crawl, and swim

New soft-bodied robots that can be controlled by a simple magnetic field are well suited to work in confined spaces.

Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
July 7, 2023 ~6 min


MIT physicists generate the first snapshots of fermion pairs

The images shed light on how electrons form superconducting pairs that glide through materials without friction.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 6, 2023 ~9 min

Researchers grow precise arrays of nanoLEDs

A new technique produces perovskite nanocrystals right where they’re needed, so the exceedingly delicate materials can be integrated into nanoscale devices.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 6, 2023 ~8 min

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