A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer — but also faster.

MIT team discovers way of making perfectly ordered and repeatable surfaces with patterns of microscale wrinkles.

Interactive proofs — mathematical games that underlie much modern cryptography — work even if players try to use quantum information to cheat.

Resulting microbial lipids may also signify oxygen dips in Earth’s history.

Long-sought goal for quantum devices — the ability to transmit single photons while blocking multiple photons — is finally achieved.

Researchers measure the orientation of a multiplanet system and find it very similar to our own solar system.

MIT-led team to receive up to $32 million from DARPA and NIH to develop technology that could accelerate pace and efficiency of pharmaceutical testing.

Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Honolulu are judged likeliest to play a significant role in the growth of a pandemic.

Findings suggest the surface of Saturn’s largest moon may have undergone a recent transformation.

New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.