Toward sustainable decarbonization of aviation in Latin America

Special report describes targets for advancing technologically feasible and economically viable strategies.

Mark Dwortzan | Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy • mit
yesterday ~6 min

This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical pollination

With a new design, the bug-sized bot was able to fly 100 times longer than prior versions.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
Jan. 15, 2025 ~8 min


How one brain circuit encodes memories of both places and events

A new computational model explains how neurons linked to spatial navigation can also help store episodic memories.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
Jan. 15, 2025 ~9 min

Fast control methods enable record-setting fidelity in superconducting qubit

The advance holds the promise to reduce error-correction resource overhead.

Sandi Miller | Department of Physics • mit
Jan. 14, 2025 ~10 min

For healthy hearing, timing matters

Machine-learning models let neuroscientists study the impact of auditory processing on real-world hearing.

Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
Jan. 14, 2025 ~7 min

New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials

With their recently-developed neural network architecture, MIT researchers can wring more information out of electronic structure calculations.

Steve Nadis | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering • mit
Jan. 14, 2025 ~9 min

Physicists measure quantum geometry for the first time

The work opens new avenues for understanding and manipulating electrons in materials.

Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Jan. 13, 2025 ~6 min

X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously

Their source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge, MIT astronomers report.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Jan. 13, 2025 ~8 min


Study shows how households can cut energy costs

An experiment in Amsterdam suggests providing better information to people can help move them out of “energy poverty.”

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
Jan. 13, 2025 ~6 min

Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces

Place cells are known to encode individual locations, but research finds stitching together a “cognitive map” of a whole environment requires a broader ensemble of cells, aided by sleep, over several days.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Jan. 10, 2025 ~8 min

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