Jacopo Buongiorno and John Parsons, co-directors of the MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, discuss how to overcome the challenges and realize the benefits of expanding nuclear power.
New robotic system could lend a hand with warehouse sorting and other picking or clearing tasks.
At the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, alumni and friends celebrate the creativity and strength of MIT and the city of Houston.
Polina Anikeeva explores ways to make neural probes that are compatible with delicate biological tissues.
New members have made advances in the development of plasticity, novel genetic evolution methods, systems modeling, and clean energy.
Study finds that turbulence competes in fusion plasmas to rapidly respond to temperature perturbations.
With SHERLOCK, a strip of paper can now indicate presence of pathogens, tumor DNA, or any genetic signature of interest.
Technology developed at MIT can harness temperature fluctuations of many kinds to produce electricity.
Faculty from six MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
A new special subject, Agricultural Microbial Ecology, takes students to Israel.
AJ Edelman ’14 will represent Israel in the men's skeleton during the 2018 Winter Olympics.
MIT researchers create predictable patterns from unpredictable carbon nanotubes.
New chip reduces neural networks’ power consumption by up to 95 percent, making them practical for battery-powered devices.
An increase in corn and soybean production in the Midwest may have led to cooler, wetter summers there.
Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold.