Engineers at MIT have taken a metal that usually trades strength for lightness and pushed it into an entirely new class, ...

Researchers at MIT have unveiled a way to temporarily reboot aging immune systems, using a targeted mRNA therapy that turns ...

The oceans soak up enormous quantities of carbon dioxide, and MIT researchers say they've developed a way of releasing and capturing it that uses far less energy than direct air capture – with some ...

Several drugs that block the immune checkpoints PD-1 and PD-L1 have been approved to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but their efficacy in the disease is estimated to be well under 50%.

The geometry or shape of a quantum system is mathematically expressed by a tool called the quantum geometric tensor (QGT). It also explains how a quantum system's state changes when we tweak certain ...

In 2013, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, proposed a new way to get around. He told PandoDaily, "We've got planes, trains, automobiles and boats for getting around earth. But what if there was ...

The hulking, heavily armed remote control ?robots that battle to the death, sending sparks, flames, and pieces of metal flying around the ring were the inspiration for a local engineer who recently ...

Soldiers stationed in remote locations could be swiftly treated for illnesses from cancer to the Zika virus, thanks to laptop-sized portable pharmacies developed by scientists at the Massachusetts ...

Elon Musk's dream of creating a superfast new transportation system got a step closer to reality over the weekend. On Saturday (Jan. 30), a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ...

Most of the tests of self-driving cars have taken place in cities. These are places where 3D mapping of streets, lanes, curbs, signs, and the like is undertaken with precision. One of the biggest ...

A team at MIT developed an emergency ventilator that could be built with parts for $100 using a bag-valve resuscitator, a common hospital item, according to a recent report. The bag-valve resuscitator ...