Sarah McDonnell

MIT

Drugs are embedded into the film and then released over a preprogrammed period of time. The film is designed so that the drug is only secreted from the side in contact with the tumor, minimizing side effects on nearby organs.

Implantable Targets Cancerous Tumors

Researchers engineered a flexible polymer film that can unfold and conform to the shape of the tumor.

The MIT team has achieved the thinnest and lightest complete solar cells ever made, they say. To demonstrate just how thin and lightweight the cells are, the researchers draped a working cell on top of a soap bubble, without popping the bubble.

Solar Cells as Light as a Soap Bubble

Imagine solar cells so thin, flexible, and lightweight that they could be placed on almost any material or surface.

This is a view inside the Alcator C-Mod tokamak.

Researchers May Have Found Key to Making Fusion Work

In a result so surprising that the researchers themselves found it hard to believe their own results, it turns out that turbulence can account for the mysterious mismatch between theory and experimental results.