In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool to predict how materials will behave based on their atomic structure, helping researchers discover new materials faster and reduce reliance on trial-and-error methods.…
Study catalogues cancer ‘fingerprints’ in decade-long global effort…
Asiaresearch News A global research collaboration, led by world class institutions in Singapore, the UK and the USA, has developed the most detailed catalogue of mutational fingerprints found in most types of cancers that could…
Simple, solar-powered water desalination
System achieves new level of efficiency in harnessing sunlight to make fresh potable water from seawater. A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons…
Measuring the wear and tear of metals
Half a century of metal testing aims to make Japan’s industries safe. For the past 50 years, researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) have been conducting detailed short- and long-term testing of…
The complex effects of colonial rule in Indonesia
By Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office Image collage: Christine Daniloff, MIT Evidence links Dutch-era sugar production and greater economic activity today. The areas of Indonesia where Dutch colonial rulers built a huge sugar-producing industry in…