Although we spend a lot of our time online nowadays—streaming music and video, checking email and social media, or obsessively reading the news—few of us know about the mathematical algorithms that manage how our content is delivered. But deciding...
SEAS researchers have developed the first flat lens that works within a continual bandwidth of colors, from blue to green. This bandwidth, close to that of an LED, paves the way for new applications in imaging, spectroscopy and sensing....
A team of researchers from MIT, Georgia Tech, and the University of Florida has devised a way to rapidly test different nanoparticles to see where they go in the body. Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT
Many scientists are pursuing ways to treat...
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are trying to improve automated planners by giving them the benefit of human intuition. By encoding the strategies of high-performing human planners in a machine-readable form, they were able to...
A cartoon shows gene editing through engineered CRISPR/Cas9En delivery in the Rotello lab at UMass Amherst. The researchers have overcome an obstacle in the technology by designing a delivery system using nanoparticles to assist CRISPR/Cas9 across the cell membrane...
Algorithms search huge datasets in order to determine the relationship among the languages spoken today. Even the comparison of individual words may give us hints about the past of our languages, as shown in the example, where the development...
Rahim Esfandyarpour helped to develop a way to create a diagnostic "lab on a chip" for just a penny.Credit: Zahra Koochak
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a way to produce a cheap and reusable diagnostic...
Detection of cancer metastasis using Nano MRI Lamp. (a) MMP-2 represented by little scissors is an enzyme that cleaves the extracellular matrix and allows cancer to metastasize to other tissues. (b) The MRI signal is turned “ON” when the...
Close up image of one node of the triangular honeycomb. The structure, which consists of air surrounded by ceramic, can be designed with specific porosity. Credit: James Weaver/Wyss Institute
Nature does amazing things with limited design materials. Grass, for example,...
Fraunhofer HHI’s analysis software uses algorithms to visualize complex learning processes (schematic diagram).Credit: © Photo Fraunhofer HHI
Neural networks are commonly used today to analyze complex data -- for instance to find clues to illnesses in genetic information. Ultimately, though,...
From a simulation run on the Yellowstone supercomputer, these contour lines and isosurfaces provide valuable information about turbulence and aerodynamic drag in this visualization of air flow through the blades of a wind turbine. Credit: Dimitri Mavriplis, University of...
