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The startup Transaera is using a class of materials, advanced by MIT Professor Mircea Dinca for over a decade, to create a more energy-efficient air conditioner. As incomes in developing countries continue to rise, demand for air conditioners is expected to triple by 2050. The surge will multiply wh...

Scientists Develop the First CRISPR/Cas9-Based Gene Drive in Plants New technology designed to breed more robust crops to improve agricultural yield and resist the effects of climate change. With a goal of breeding resilient crops that are better able to withstand drought and disease, University of ...

Researchers developed NanoporeTERs—engineered proteins readable by nanopore sensors—to monitor dozens of cellular processes in parallel, transforming biosensing and genetic analysis. Genetically encoded reporter proteins have been a mainstay of biotechnology research, allowing scientists to track ge...

A team of researchers including ones from Stanford and Google have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a time crystal. There is a huge global effort to engineer a computer capable of harnessing the power of quantum physics to carry out computations of unprecedented complex...

From nuclear proliferation to climate change, Richard K. Lester taps research talent to map a path toward a sustainable planet. Looking back on nearly a half-century at MIT, Richard K. Lester, associate provost and Japan Steel Industry Professor, sees a “somewhat eccentric professional trajectory.” ...

It Is Easy for People To Mistake Fluent Speech for Fluent Thought When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience leads you to believe that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this instance, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sen...