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Findings Could Point the Way to 'Valleytronics'
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Findings Could Point the Way to 'Valleytronics'

Researchers have cleared a path toward a new kind of 2-D microchip that would use  characteristics of electrons other than their electrical charge. Dubbed "valleytronics...

Extreme Materials and ­biquitous Electronics
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Extreme Materials and ­biquitous Electronics

Associate Professor Tomás Palacios and researchers at MIT explore the application of novel materials to help next-generation electronics save energy.

Superconducting Circuits, Simplified
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Superconducting Circuits, Simplified

MIT researchers have unveiled a new circuit design that could unlock the power of experimental superconducting computer chips and make the them cheaper to manufacture...

Toward Optical Chips
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Toward Optical Chips

Molybdenum disulfide, a promising light source for optoelectronic chips, can be tuned to different frequencies.

Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results
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Classroom Contest Yields Publishable Results

A classroom design competition involving cellular-networking protocols turned two teams of MIT undergraduates into co-authors of a paper published in the ACM SIGCOMM...

Going to the Red Planet
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Going to the Red Planet

Whenever the first NASA astronauts arrive on Mars, they will likely have MIT to thank for the oxygen they breathe—and for the oxygen needed to burn rocket fuel...

High-Performance Computing Programming with Ease
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High-Performance Computing Programming with Ease

Alan Edelman leads the global, open-source collaborative development of "Julia," a powerful but flexible programming language for high performance computing.

Seeing How a Lithium-Ion Battery Works
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Seeing How a Lithium-Ion Battery Works

Researchers at MIT say their new findings explain the unexpectedly high power and long cycle life of a type of electrode widely used in lithium-ion batteries.

Surprising Nanotubes: Some Slippery, Some Sticky
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Surprising Nanotubes: Some Slippery, Some Sticky

New research discovers unexpected variations in the behavior of nanotubes made of carbon and those made of boron nitride.

Bake Your Own Robot
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Bake Your Own Robot

Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...

Growing Graphene
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Growing Graphene

Researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan have come up with a new way of producing sheets of graphene, in a process that lends itself to scalable manufacturing...

Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State
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Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State

A team of researchers has produced a detailed visualization of how sodium manganese dioxide behaves during charging and discharging, elucidating an exotic molecular...

The Complexonaut
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The Complexonaut

When he was in elementary school, Scott Aaronson, like many mathematically precocious kids of his generation, dreamed of making his own video games.

Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing

Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...

Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence
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Marvin Minsky Honored For Lifetime Achievements in Artificial Intelligence

MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...

Catching (radio) Waves
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Catching (radio) Waves

In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to...

'wise Chisels': Art, Craftsmanship, and Power Tools
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'wise Chisels': Art, Craftsmanship, and Power Tools

It's often easy to tell at a glance the difference between a mass-produced object and one that has been handcrafted: The handmade item is likely to have distinctive...

Big Plans For Small Spacecraft
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Big Plans For Small Spacecraft

It's hard to miss the rocket engine in Paulo Lozano's MIT office.

Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics
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Bringing 'Common Sense' to Text Analytics

Catherine Havasi used more than a decade of artificial intelligence research as the technological foundation for a startup whose commercial software is helping...

Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers
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Teaching Computers to See–by Learning to See Like Computers

By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...
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