Engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.

Magnets and superconductors go together like oil and water—or so scientists have thought. But a new finding by MIT physicists ...

In 2021, Jeff Shrager — who had written one of the first ELIZA clones back in the 1970s — convinced MIT archivist Myles ...

Global warming will likely hinder our future ability to control ground-level ozone, a harmful air pollutant that is a primary ...

A simple intervention could soon keep the produce in your refrigerator fresh for a little longer. Researchers at MIT have ...

Humans naturally learn by making connections between sight and sound. For instance, we can watch someone playing the cello ...

SeaSplat is an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean's optical effects to generate images of underwater environments reveal an ocean scene's true colors. Researchers paired the ...

US-based start-up NANO Nuclear Energy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Nuclear Science & ...

We’ve all felt the sting of guilt when fruit and vegetables go bad before we could eat them. Now, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have sho ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Campfire fest tunes up and the cities share an Asian Festival, enjoy a night of immersive art, wrestle friends, learn about how “They ...

Samara Oster thought beer was bitter, bloated, and overrated. But during a 2019 trip to Peru, one crisp, quinoa-infused sip ...

The rising energy cost of data centers is a vital test case for how we deal with the broader electrification of the economy.