Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
Magnetically controlled device could deliver clot-reducing therapies in response to stroke or other brain blockages.
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Study: Climate change could pose danger for Muslim pilgrimage
When the Hajj comes in summertime, in some years it may not be safe for participants to remain outdoors.
Using recent gene flow to define microbe populations
New method identifies ecologically and medically relevant bacteria groups.
3Q: Jeremy Gregory on measuring the benefits of hazard resilience
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub scientist explains how rating systems akin to LEED for resilient construction can make communities more hazard-resistant.
School of Engineering second quarter 2019 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the past quarter.
Seven MIT faculty win 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards
Checkelsky, Chung, LeBeau, Lee, Marelli, Slatyer, and Surendranath receive the highest U.S. award for young scientists and engineers.
IDSS hosts inaugural Learning for Dynamics and Control conference
L4DC explored an emerging scientific area at the intersection of real-time physical data, machine learning, control theory, and optimization.
An atomic-scale erector set
To predict building damage, Kostas Keremidis of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub is modeling structures as ensembles of atoms.
Featured video: Saving iguanas with science and engineering
Professor Otto Cordero and colleagues ask: Can microbiome engineering make the Galapagos marine iguana more resilient to climate change?
Translating proteins into music, and back
By turning molecular structures into sounds, researchers gain insight into protein structures and create new variations.
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2019-20
Ranked at the top for the eighth straight year, the Institute also places first in 11 of 48 disciplines.
Researchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid
Findings show how to make confined bubbles develop uniformly, instead of in their usual scattershot way.
The tenured engineers of 2019
Seventeen appointments have been made in eight departments within the School of Engineering.
Celebrating the Class of 2019 and CEE community
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering honors students, postdocs, faculty, and staff at awards banquet; seniors present capstone projects.
J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
Nine principal investigators from MIT will receive grants totaling over $1 million for solutions-oriented research into global food and water challenges.