Inspiration from a porcupine’s quills
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
Scholars mark 50th anniversary of 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.'
The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.
Twin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.
Oceans at MIT interviews MIT's Chiang C. Mei about the possibility of protecting East Coast cities from future storms.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards given to pursue high-risk research in marine microbial ecology.
MIT researchers find that adding a coating of graphene has little effect on how a surface interacts with liquids — except in extreme cases.
Recognized by their peers for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
Empirically rich new study finds most people alter their risk-management approach depending on the type of financial decision.
MIT professor of mechanical engineering is one of just seven recipients of the award this year.
Holds gala event for supporters, administrators, students, faculty and more.
The researchers will investigate transient boiling heat transfer phenomena under rapidly escalating heat fluxes.