MIT engineers identified an unusually absorbent material that could be used for passive cooling or water harvesting in warm climates
With the right building blocks, machine-learning models can more accurately perform tasks like fraud detection or spam filtering
Researchers create a trajectory-planning system that enables drones working together in the same airspace to always choose a safe path forward
A new system enables makers to incorporate sensors into gears and other rotational mechanisms with just one pass in a 3D printer
Most cities don’t map their own pedestrian networks. Now, researchers have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that
Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply
Robotic parts could be assembled into nimble spider bots for exploring lava tubes or heavy-duty elephant bots for transporting solar panels