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Progeny of novel combination is more vigorous and productive than parental plants. Novel grafted plants — consisting of…

A new book co-authored by MIT engineers Julie Shah and Laura Major SM ’05 explores a future populated with robot helpers.…

Complex interlocking components mean no tools are needed. Credit: © Larsson et al. An interactive system to design and…

Drill core site. In seeking to understand the major evolutionary transition they had uncovered at Olorgesailie in 2018, Potts…

Here's an interesting experiment Google is kicking around on its smart displays: voice-command input…

Native to desert habitats in Southern California, the diabolical ironclad beetle has an exoskeleton that’s one of the…

Chimpanzee Angie, who was studied at the National Center for Chimpanzee Care in Texas. Credit: University of Warwick Language…

Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn’t need a wireless or main power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy…

Lily the barn owl demonstrates wing-morphing to cope with gusts in flight. Credit: Cheney et al 2020 Scientists from the…

In developing a system to help decipher lost languages, MIT researchers studied the language of Ugaritic, which is related to…