Artist's impression of a split beam with vitamin B12 in a liquid jet. Scientists have developed a new X-ray technique that can capture ultrafast molecular changes in extremely dilute liquid samples - a breakthrough that…
Future Materials
Materials have been so important to human life that ages have been named after them, such as the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Now, a new generation of two-dimensional materials and their composites…
Smoke and flames in Australia
Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fuelled by record-breaking temperatures, drought and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season has been horrific. A staggering 10 million hectares of land…
New approach to making airplane parts—minus the massive…
MIT News Office | CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A modern airplane’s fuselage is made from multiple sheets of different composite materials, like so many layers in a phyllo-dough pastry. Once these layers are stacked and molded into…
Study Shows Nuclear Technique Suppresses Tsetse Flies Without…
A nuclear technique has successfully been used to suppress a major pest – the tsetse fly – in Senegal without inadvertently harming other insects, an eight-year study shows.The study, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, is part…