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In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use
https://news.mit.edu/2025/kids-eeg-monitoring-consciousness-safely-reduces-anesthetic-use-0429
Published: April 29, 2025 20:30
Clinical trial finds several outcomes improved for young children when an anesthesiologist observed their brain waves to guide dosing of sevoflurane during surgery.
Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction
https://news.mit.edu/2025/exploring-new-frontiers-mineral-extraction-0429
Published: April 29, 2025 18:00
Professor Thomas Peacock’s research aims to better understand the impact of deep-sea mining.
Response to infection highlights the nervous system’s surprising degrees of flexibility
https://news.mit.edu/2025/response-infection-highlights-nervous-system-surprising-flexibility-0429
Published: April 29, 2025 17:00
Upon infection, the C. elegans worm reshuffles the roles of brain cells and flips the functions of some of the chemicals it uses to regulate behavior.
Always looking to home
https://news.mit.edu/2025/always-looking-home-mingmar-sherpa-0429
Published: April 29, 2025 17:00
Mingmar Sherpa, a researcher in the Martin Lab in the Department of Biology, has remained connected to his home in Nepal at every step of his career.
Will the vegetables of the future be fortified using tiny needles?
https://news.mit.edu/2025/will-vegetables-future-be-fortified-using-tiny-needles-0429
Published: April 29, 2025 16:20
Researchers showed they can inexpensively produce silk microneedles to deliver vitamins or agrochemicals to plants.
New chip tests cooling solutions for stacked microelectronics
https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-chip-tests-cooling-solutions-stacked-microelectronics-0428
Published: April 28, 2025 20:40
Preventing 3D integrated circuits from overheating is key to enabling their widespread use.
A new computational framework illuminates the hidden ecology of diseased tissues
Published: April 28, 2025 19:00
The MESA method uses ecological theory to map cellular diversity and spatial patterns in tissues, offering new insights into disease progression.
Gene circuits enable more precise control of gene therapy
https://news.mit.edu/2025/gene-circuits-enable-more-precise-control-gene-therapy-0428
Published: April 28, 2025 15:00
The circuits could help researchers develop new treatments for Fragile X syndrome and other diseases caused by mutations of a single gene.
Designing a new way to optimize complex coordinated systems
https://news.mit.edu/2025/designing-new-way-optimize-complex-coordinated-systems-0424
Published: April 24, 2025 19:00
Using diagrams to represent interactions in multipart systems can provide a faster way to design software improvements.
Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
https://news.mit.edu/2025/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humans-0424
Published: April 24, 2025 04:00
A new approach could enable intuitive robotic helpers for household, workplace, and warehouse settings.
A brief history of expansion microscopy
https://news.mit.edu/2025/brief-history-expansion-microscopy-0423
Published: April 23, 2025 19:00
Since an MIT team introduced expansion microscopy in 2015, the technique has powered the science behind kidney disease, plant seeds, the microbiome, Alzheimer’s, viruses, and more.
New model predicts a chemical reaction’s point of no return
https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-model-predicts-chemical-reactions-no-return-point-0423
Published: April 23, 2025 15:00
Chemists could use this quick computational method to design more efficient reactions that yield useful compounds, from fuels to pharmaceuticals.
New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-electronic-skin-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glasses-0423
Published: April 23, 2025 15:00
MIT engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles and scopes.
MIT engineers print synthetic “metamaterials” that are both strong and stretchy
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineers-print-synthetic-metamaterials-strong-and-stretchy-0423
Published: April 23, 2025 09:00
A new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy semiconductors.
“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
https://news.mit.edu/2025/machine-learning-periodic-table-could-fuel-ai-discovery-0423
Published: April 23, 2025 04:00
Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones.
3D modeling you can feel
https://news.mit.edu/2025/3d-modeling-you-can-feel-0422
Published: April 22, 2025 19:00
TactStyle, a system developed by CSAIL researchers, uses image prompts to replicate both the visual appearance and tactile properties of 3D models.
Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
Published: April 22, 2025 14:30
The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5 hours.