Research Stories
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Wireless device captures sleep data without using cameras or body sensors; could aid patients with Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, or bedsores.
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Color-changing array of silk microneedles could help stem outbreaks and avoid food waste.
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Mobile system could reduce health care workers’ exposure to Covid-19 virus.
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Despite the planet’s seeming standstill, graduate students continue to use LIGO to identify astrophysical events.
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The startup Kinsa uses its smart thermometers to detect and track the spread of contagious illness before patients go to the hospital.
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Everactive provides an industrial “internet of things” platform built on its battery-free sensors.
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Machine learning system from MIT CSAIL can look at chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia — and also knows when to defer to a radiologist.
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MIT researchers develop integrated lightwave electronic circuits to detect the phase of ultrafast optical fields.
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Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.
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Specialized nanoparticles create a “breath signal” that could be used to diagnose pneumonia and other infectious or genetic diseases.