George R. Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, is the principal investigator for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS) Explorer mission, which has discovered thousands of new planets since its launch in 2018.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers have developed fibers containing "optical barcodes" that can improve the ability to sort and recycle textiles. The fibers can be woven into fabrics as built-in labels, and reflect specific wavelengths of infrared light when scanned.
MIT researchers César Terrer and Wenzhe Jiao are leveraging a new generation of remote sensing devices to provide high-resolution plant water stress data at regional to global scales.
The 2023 QSEC Annual Research Conference (QuARC) was a two-day exploration of the leading edge in quantum information science and engineering. Sponsored by the Quantum Science and Engineering Consortium (QSEC), the QuARC brought together industry partners with MIT faculty and students.
Lincoln Laboratory researchers aim to improve airport security screening by building a new way to detect trace amounts of explosives in luggage. The technology is a mass spectrometer that aims to mimic the way canines can smell trace explosives.