MIT engineers have developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design could one day provide a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants. The new device is designed as a small sticker that can be worn on the chest. Tiny transducers on the sticker send ultrasound pulses through the chest to stimulate […]
Read MoreQuantum computers could someday solve pressing problems that are too convoluted for classical computers, such as modeling complex molecular interactions to streamline drug discovery and materials development. But to build a superconducting quantum computer that is large and resilient enough for real-world applications, scientists must precisely engineer thousands of quantum circuits so they perform operations […]
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Lidar systems use pulses of infrared light to measure distance and map a 3D scene with high resolution, allowing autonomous vehicles to rapidly react to obstacles that appear in their path. But traditional lidar sensors are expensive, bulky systems with many moving parts that degrade over time, limiting how the sensors can be deployed. A […]
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Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar systems. Their unique properties come from their atomic structure, but that structure has stubbornly eluded direct measurement. Now a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has directly characterized the three-dimensional atomic structure of a relaxor ferroelectric for the […]
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Source: Issarawat Tattong / Getty The Iran war has objectively been terrible for everyone. The United States and Israel’s decision to bomb Iran over nuclear weapons they don’t have, nor were close to having, has had a widespread, negative impact on the global economy. While the U.S. agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran on […]
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Tomás Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, has been appointed director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN). Palacios assumed the role on Feb. 4, and will continue to serve as the director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL). Founded in 2002, ISN is a U.S. Army-sponsored University Affiliated Research […]
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