Imagine buying a new T-shirt and quickly losing interest after just a few wears. With new technology from MIT, you don’t have to throw your T-shirt away; you can redesign it however you want.

Scientists have long grappled with a fundamental question: what exactly is light? Is it a wave, flowing like ripples across water, or is it made up of tiny particles, like miniature paintballs zipping ...

In a famous surgery in the early 1900s, Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, trying to treat epilepsy, found that stimulating specific neurons while patients were under local anesthesia caused them ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a light-emitting plant that can be charged by an LED. These plants can produce light that is 10 times brighter ...

In search of advanced medical devices that can be ingested by the human body and don’t need to be surgically removed after, scientists at MIT have developed a new technology that would instead break ...

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new color-changing ink that you can "reprogram" with light to produce different colors and ...

Decoding cellular signals has long been a cornerstone of biomedical research, offering insights into how cells communicate and respond to environmental changes. This knowledge is vital for diagnosing ...

Harvard alums await Facebook IPO. MIT students need 5 milliseconds to predict a red light runner with 85% accuracy. Who deserves to be rich? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

When taken orally or intravenously, medications typically travel throughout the body, producing unwanted side effects. MIT scientists are working on an alternative, that delivers both light and a ...

‘Optogenetics offers precise muscle control with significantly less fatigue. #neuroprosthetics #optogenetics #medindia’ “It turns out that by using light, through optogenetics, one can control muscle ...

With global networks carrying complex time-sensitive data, the speed of light is actually becoming a significant source of latency, researchers have found. While today’s fiber optics-based networks ...