Increasing solar panel efficiencies while lowering cost to replace coal and gas as energy sources still requires technological advancements

Parkinson's is a progressive and debilitating disease of the brain that eventually compromises patients' ability to walk and even to talk.

A team of researchers have developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely and delicately gripping objects underwater.

Researchers have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial components to construct biohybrid microrobots.

Roasting chile peppers to deepen the flavor and make the inedible skin easier to remove is hardly environmentally friendly.

Research has generated promising results for a new blocking antibody therapy that targets a protein critical to cancer's ability to spread.

Metamaterials provide researchers with a new concept of designing artificial materials, bringing vigor and vitality to advanced materials.

For most children and even some adults, swallowing pills or tablets is difficult. A drug-delivering gel makes medicine easier to swallow.

MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can generate drinking water from seawater

Researchers have found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease reduces obesity.

AI technology enables learning of the stiffness levels and distributions of the tumor, suggesting the possibility of cancer diagnosis.

Heart disease — the leading cause of death in the U.S. — is so deadly in part because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot repair itself.

Understanding the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and the brain’s complex network of vessels and veins is a challenge for science.

The result surprised the research group: compared to pure barium titanate of a similar thickness, the current flow was up to 1,000x stronger

A new tool can quickly and reliably identify the presence of Ebola in blood samples and potentially could be developed into a rapid test.

The robotic microswarm could be particularly valuable for those who lack the manual dexterity to clean their teeth effectively themselves.

Researchers have developed an oral medication to treat diabetes while simultaneously reversing the inflammatory effects of the disease.

Scientists propose the idea of a multilayer deflective film to be deployed at the Lagrangian Point decreasing the incident sunlight by 1.8%.

MIT researchers have produced smart textiles that snugly conform to the body so they can sense the wearer’s posture and motions.

Direct air carbon capture and sequestration (DAC) are considered critical to achieving a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050.