Study reveals how egg cells get so big
Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive smaller cells to dump their contents into a larger cell.
Oocyte growth relies on physical phenomena that drive smaller cells to dump their contents into a larger cell.
The Institute ranks second in four subject areas.
As captain of MIT’s varsity football team, senior Ben Delhees strives to create community wherever he goes.
Awards honor, support young professors in the Media Lab and departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemical Engineering, EECS, and Mathematics.
Longtime MIT professor who laid the foundations for the development of index theory was a recipient of both the National Medal of Science and the Abel Prize.
New technique reveals many possible conformations that a protein may take.
In a new MIT class, students explore how STEM researchers bring their knowledge to major societal issues.
Association for Computing Machinery honors Anantha Chandrakasan, Alan Edelman, and Samuel Madden for work that underpins contemporary computing.
Using this computational system, researchers can identify viral protein sequences that could make better vaccine targets.
As a tutor and teaching assistant, senior Jack-Willliam Barotta helps create a welcoming learning environment for students of all backgrounds.
A key finding: Early reopening last spring led to a dramatic drop in “quarantine strength” in southern and west-central U.S. states.
MIT students Robert Koirala and Grace Smith intern for a nonprofit promoting educational and health equity in India.
MIT Social Impact Interns partner with the Naval War College to develop an educational disaster response game.
As cases increased worldwide this spring, mechanical engineers developed solutions to help slow and stop the spread of the coronavirus.
MIT is among nine universities selected as part of a program sponsored by the DoE to support science-based modeling and simulation and exascale computing technologies.