May 12, 2026
Powerful shrinking technique could enable devices that compute with light
Anne Trafton | MIT News MIT researchers created tiny 3D photonic devices with features small enough to channel visible light.
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May 7, 2026
Photonics advance could enable compact, high-performance lidar sensors
Adam Zewe | MIT News With a novel design, MIT researchers overcame a stubborn problem that has limited the effectiveness of chip-based systems for lidar.
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April 3, 2026
Electrons in Moiré Crystals Explore Higher-dimensional Quantum Worlds
Department of Physics MIT physicists have discovered 3D “moiré crystals” that simulate four-dimensional quantum materials to a T.
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March 30, 2026
MIT Researchers use AI to Uncover Atomic Defects in Materials
Zach Winn | MIT News A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials’ mechanical strength, heat transfer, and energy-conversion efficiency.
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March 26, 2026
“Near-misses” in Particle Accelerators can Illuminate New Physics, Study finds
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Physicists discovered new properties of the strong force by analyzing what happens when light-speed particles skim by each other.
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March 25, 2026
Why Solid-state Batteries Keep Short-circuiting
Zach Winn | MIT News New insights into metallic cracks that harm battery performance could advance the longstanding quest to develop energy-dense solid-state batteries.
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March 12, 2026
Discovering the Joy of Future-forward Electrical Engineering
Jane Halpern | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science One year in, MIT’s hands-on 6-5 (Electrical Engineering With Computing) degree program is already one of…
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March 11, 2026
New Photonic Device Efficiently Beams Light into Free Space
Adam Zewe | MIT News Light-emitting structures that curl off the chip surface could enable advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and larger-scale quantum…
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February 26, 2026
New Method Could Increase LLM Training Efficiency
Adam Zewe | MIT News By leveraging idle computing time, researchers can double the speed of model training while preserving accuracy.
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February 20, 2026
Chip-processing Method Could Assist Cryptography Schemes to Keep Data Secure
Adam Zewe | MIT News By enabling two chips to authenticate each other using a shared fingerprint, this technique can improve privacy and energy efficiency.
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