Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like ...

Screams filled the laboratory – screams, thankfully, of joy. Akib Zaman, a PhD candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had just made a mini chair appear, seemingly out of nowhere. He ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who teaches, invents new designs, and writes papers on the underlying math.

Engineers have created a “cosmic veil”—a special protective coating—designed to shield solar cells on satellites and spacecraft from the brutal radiation environment of space. Developed at the ...

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When it comes to exploring the solar system, we must grapple with the hard limits of physics. The NASA probe’s retrorockets pressed desperately against the apricot afternoon skies of Mars. It was ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map to date of the surface of 16-Psyche, an asteroid that scientists believe could hold clues to how planets formed in our Solar System. According to a ...

Forget the image of the lonely inventor tinkering away in a workshop. Today, it’s more common that numerous technologies developed by a variety of inventors suddenly come together to form a cohesive ...

We do still not yet know who constructed the Antikythera Mechanism and where it was made. It seems unlikely the great Greek scientist and engineer Archimedes invented the Antikythera Mechanism, but he ...