MIT researchers find that lubricated, nanotextured surfaces improved performance of condensers in power and desalination plants.

Protein-labeling technique allows high-resolution visualization of molecules inside cells.

New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.

New way to image brain-cell activity could shed light on autism and other psychiatric disorders.

MIT team applies technology developed for visual ‘cloaking’ to enable more efficient transfer of electrons.

A meteorite found in Antarctica holds evidence of a once-active dynamo on Vesta.

Researchers believe that information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication — can explain differences between human languages.

New MIT study identifies adhesion molecules key to cancer’s spread through the body.

New low-cost, durable carbon nanotube sensors can be etched with mechanical pencils.

A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.