Research

NSE’s Ben Forget one of four at MIT to oversee Institutes work as part of the consortium which includes industry, government, and academic institutions.

Fusion energy community makes unified statement on priorities in report for Department of Energy Policy Advisory Group.

System “recruits” defects that usually cause disruptions, using them to instead carry out quantum operations.

Areg Danagoulian, associate professor in the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has built a career around nuclear detection technology. His work has focused, among other things, on a system that could greatly improve the current process for verifying compliance of...

Highly regarded physicist was well-known for studying plasma turbulence in terms of coherent structures.

Most materials have a fixed ability to conduct heat, but applying voltage to this thin film changes its thermal properties drastically.

A new study suggests a path to more efficient error correction, which may help make quantum computers and sensors more practical.

New research by engineers at MIT and elsewhere could lead to batteries that can pack more power per pound and last longer, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as one of the battery’s two electrodes, the anode.

No one could be more astonished to find Ciara Sivels ’13 where she is today than Ciara Sivels herself.  “Never in a million years would I have predicted that I’d be working as a nuclear engineer in a major research laboratory,” says...

For Analyce Hernandez, there are few greater pleasures than venturing into the unknown. Take her experience during January’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), for instance. Hernandez, a double major in Course 8 and Course 22-ENG, signed up for “Build your own Fusor,” a...