Engineers have developed a new aerial-aquatic robot that can swim underwater, then rise to the surface and take flight.

A nuclear fusion startup led by scientists at MIT to create a revolutionary fusion nuclear reactor that would imitate the way the sun generates energy is getting ready to go on a hiring spree.

Thirty-one Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates spent four weeks this year designing, building and hot-firing ...

Engineers designed modular, spring-like devices to maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid robots. Our muscles are nature's perfect actuators -- devices ...

Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features. Pictured are pieces of the filter. Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny ...

Design News doesn’t usually refer readers to other media sites, but we’re breaking that unwritten rule today to point to a story about one of the all-time great engineering pranks. MIT students ...