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A new physics-based tool developed by MIT engineers reproduces a violin’s sound, and could help violin makers play around with an instrument’s design and tweak its sound even before a single part is carved.

MIT engineers’ virtual violin produces realistic sounds

04.29.26
The Y-zipper a user creates will appear to “shape-shift” in the real world. When unzipped, it can look like a squid with three sprawling tentacles, and when closed up, it becomes a more compact structure.

It took 40 years for technology to catch up to this zipper design

05.04.26
An assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a principal investigator at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Gabriele Farina combines concepts from game theory with such tools as machine learning, optimization, and statistics to advance theoretical and algorithmic foundations for decision-making.

Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI

05.05.26
Found, with support from the Department of Energy, is hoping to use their electrochemical gallium extraction technology to create a new domestic supply chain for gallium and a host of other important metals.

Found Industries aims to strengthen America’s industrial supply chains

05.03.26
On the left is a snapshot of single histone molecules (red) inside a cell nucleus (dotted line). On the right, we see the trajectories of these molecules’ movement over time. The colors show the path they travel, and each trajectory changes color to give an impression of time passing.

How chromatin movement helps control gene expression

05.04.26
Researchers developed a new method that allows engineers to quickly and easily stress-test a networking algorithm before deployment, catching failure modes that might otherwise only appear in a real outage.

Method for stress-testing cloud computing algorithms helps avoid network failures

05.06.26
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MIT engineers have developed a new way to amplify the T cell response to mRNA vaccines — an advance that could lead to much more powerful cancer vaccines and stronger protection against infectious diseases.

A new approach to cancer vaccination yields more powerful T cells

05.13.26