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“Thirty-six million people in the U.S. use an energy system developed by a handful of activists in the 1990s. An MIT scholar examines this unusual story. In the mid-1990s, a few energy activists in Massachusetts had a vision: What …
“Discovery shows for the first time that multiferroic properties can exist in a two-dimensional material; could lead to more efficient magnetic memory devices. MIT physicists have discovered an exotic “multiferroic” state in a material that is as thin as a …
“Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration. If faced with the choice of sending a swarm of full-sized, distinct robots to space, or a large crew of smaller robotic modules, you might want to enlist the …
“Researchers with the KATRIN experiment determine that neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 eV/c2. In a milestone that will bear on future discoveries in nuclear and particle physics, today an international team including scientists from MIT announced that they …
“With many devices depending on the motion of ions, light could be used as a switch to turn ion motion on and off. Engineers from MIT and Kyushu University in Japan have demonstrated for the first time how light can …
“The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics. The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells. A single wood cell wall is constructed from …
“Thermal span in a layered compound promises applications in next-generation electrical switches and nonvolatile memory. When temperature changes, many materials undergo a phase transition, such as liquid water to ice, or a metal to a superconductor. Sometimes, a so-called hysteresis …
“If you download music online, you can get accompanying information embedded into the digital file that might tell you the name of the song, its genre, the featured artists on a given track, the composer, and the producer. Similarly, if …
“The new substance is the result of a feat thought to be impossible: polymerizing a material in two dimensions. Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light …
“Work has potential applications in memory storage and demonstrates a rare form of matter With the help of a “playground” they created for observing exotic physics, MIT scientists and colleagues have not only found a new way to manipulate magnetism …