Atlas Building Composites, an MIT spinout, recently supplied the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with American-made recycled composite trusses to construct this 40-foot bridge in a Massachusetts wetland.
The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve.
WhippetInTech’s autonomous AI-powered cameraman
If you’re familiar with the maker community, you may already have encountered WhippetInTech, from a design engineer who documents his builds on YouTube.
NIST researcher Amanda Forster helped create a product for the textile recycling industry that will help train forensic fiber examiners.
Painter Bob Ross taught us that “happy accidents” can make beautiful art. Happy accidents also happen in science when experiments take research in unexpected directions. One dramatic example is Sir Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin.
Cyrus Daugherty (left) and Jacob LaManna with the scroll they used to help work toward solving an ancient mystery.
Four years ago, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Cyrus Daugherty developed an algorithm to virtually unroll the tightly wrapped layers of a cylindrical lithium-ion battery.
The CW-Net technique explains the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using understandable concepts. “Instead of just wondering why the car stopped, having real-time data provides feedback that lets you test the system during deployment,” says AI researcher Eoin Kenny.
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle.
Knowing how fast medicine flows is crucial to delivering the right amount. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF) intern Henry Nonnemaker used specialized math techniques to help better understand fluid flow.
When doctors need to deliver precise doses of medicine on a strict schedule, they often administer it intravenously. Intravenous drug delivery methods need to carefully control the flow of medicine into a patient.
Researchers at MIT have overcome a major challenge holding back the real-world deployment of microwave quantum technologies for advanced signal processing and secure communications.
A sound that’s slightly off before a bearing fails. A smell that shows up before a chemical reaction runs hot. A texture that feels wrong before any instrument confirms it.
It has become routine for researchers to interpret documents containing billions of words.
When President Donald Trump announced a wave of tariffs in early 2025, he launched a war of words. Threats and counterthreats flew across the Atlantic and Pacific in a swirl of escalation, retaliation, and reprieve.
There’s a number that stopped me in my tracks recently. U.S.
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