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Jan 12, 2026

New Tool Lets Anyone Audit a Country’s Methane Claims

Harvard Salata Institute

Open-access software pairs satellite observations with atmospheric modeling

Climate, Environment, Environmental Science & Engineering, Research

Jan 8, 2026

An Unexpected Breakthrough in Flat Optics

Discovery highlights benefits of silica metasurfaces

Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Metasurfaces, Optics / Photonics, Research

Dec 15, 2025

The Smoky Signature of Climate Change

Study quantifies role of a warming climate in wildfires and air quality

Climate, Environment, Environmental Science & Engineering, Research, Wildfire

porous biomaterial scaffold the size of an aspirin tablet on tip of finger

Dec 12, 2025

Clinical Trial of Personalized Cancer Vaccine Demonstrates Feasibility, Safety, Immune Activation

A path to future immunotherapies assessing biomaterial-based cancer vaccines in combination with checkpoint blockade inhibitors

Bioengineering, Health / Medicine, Research

Dec 12, 2025

Tissues Made For You, From You

MIT News

In Dresselhaus Lecture, Jennifer Lewis describes work 3D printing soft materials ranging from robots to human tissues

Bioengineering, Health / Medicine, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research

Dec 11, 2025

Tapping Into Whale Talk

Open-source bio-logger captures underwater cetacean conversations

AI / Machine Learning, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research, Robotics, Technology

silica rods that form scaffolds for immune cells

Dec 10, 2025

Teaching T-Cells to Kill Cancer

Cancer vaccines, medical adhesives and more from the lab of David Mooney

Bioengineering, Research

Close-up of an electrocardiogram (ECG) printout showing several horizontal traces of heartbeats as jagged black lines on a fine grid of light gray squares

Dec 9, 2025

Soft “Cyborg” Cardiac Patches Could Improve Stem Cell Heart Repair

Flexible electronic platform offers real-time monitoring of stem cell integration

Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Health / Medicine, Research

Nov 12, 2025

The Next Frontier In Clean Flight? Jet Fuel From City Waste

Research explores sustainable aviation fuel from municipal solid waste

Environmental Science & Engineering, Research

knees of a patient being checked by a doctor

Nov 3, 2025

Biomaterial Vaccines to Make Implanted Orthopedic Devices Safer

Using pathogen-specific antigens could significantly lower patients’ risk of infection

Bioengineering, Health / Medicine, Research, Technology

Oct 31, 2025

How Synthetic Biology Can Transform Crops, Cancer Therapies, and Drug Discovery

A conversation with Mo Khalil

Bioengineering, Climate, Health / Medicine, Meet Our Faculty, Research

dimpled metamaterial in hourglass pattern

Oct 27, 2025

The Need for Speed

New textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties

Industry, Materials, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering, Research

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