Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply.

By keeping data fresh, the system could help robots inspect buildings or search disaster zones.

Developed at SMART, the nondestructive nanosensors could have wide applications in agricultural science.

The device could help workers locate objects for fulfilling e-commerce orders or identify parts for assembling products.

Lincoln Laboratory seeks ways to build non-contact screening methods that can detect concealed explosives at airports.

An experiment in Amsterdam reveals how pilfered bicycles are put to use.

The sensor sends out its location as it moves through the GI tract, revealing where slowdowns in digestion may occur.

MIT engineers developed organic polymers that can efficiently convert signals from biological tissue into the electronic signals used in transistors.

Study shows that if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, hardware efficiency will need to advance rapidly to keep computing-related emissions in check.

By analyzing enzyme activity at the organism, tissue, and cellular scales, new sensors could provide new tools to clinicians and cancer researchers.