Topic
Research
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Big innovations for uncertain times
Seventh annual MIT Energy Conference features bold new technologies in the face of an uncertain economy.
March 20, 2012 -
New tools to answer timeless questions
Alan Jasanoff is designing imaging sensors that could help reveal the brain’s inner workings.
March 16, 2012 -
The power of being heard
When it comes to intergroup conflict, the group with less power benefits more from sharing its perspective.
March 15, 2012 -
New CSAIL research could help secure the cloud
DARPA funding awarded to a project that aims to develop a smart, self-healing cloud computing infrastructure.
March 14, 2012 -
Guiding robot planes with hand gestures
MIT researchers are developing a system that would allow aircraft-carrier crews to direct autonomous planes using ordinary hand gestures.
March 14, 2012 -
Five faculty to receive ACS awards
March 13, 2012 -
X-ray monitoring mission comes to an end
The RXTE satellite retires after 16 years.
March 13, 2012 -
Lots of trouble
In a new book, an MIT urban planner rethinks the mundane, ubiquitous parking lot.
March 13, 2012 -
Fiber laser points to woven 3-D displays
A fiber that can emit light along its length in any direction may herald flexible 3-D displays and medical tools that activate therapeutic compounds with bursts of light.
March 12, 2012 -
McGovern Institute to honor synapses expert Roger Nicoll
Named winner of the 2012 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.
March 8, 2012 -
Freeing radicals from their negative connotations
Killian Award recipient JoAnne Stubbe says some free radicals can be good for you.
March 8, 2012 -
Koch Institute, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center announce launch of 'Bridge Project' to attack most-lethal forms of cancer
Institutions, research teams, non-profit organizations join forces in novel approaches targeting pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma.
March 6, 2012 -
Political science PhD candidate Christopher Clary helping to shape U.S. defense policy
March 5, 2012 -
Louis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88
Developed many of the experimental techniques that are now standard practice in high-energy physics
March 5, 2012 -
Game on
As MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference kicks off, scholars and fans have produced a growing avalanche of quantitative research.
March 2, 2012 -
Measuring blood flow to monitor sickle cell disease
New technology may help doctors predict when patients are at risk for serious complications.
March 1, 2012 -
Reversing Alzheimer’s gene ‘blockade’ can restore memory, other cognitive functions
Neuroscientists show that HDAC2 enzyme could be a good target for new drugs.
March 1, 2012 -
Scientists: This man has your number
Pierre Azoulay knows why scientists thrive, flounder and have bursts of creativity — and he has the numbers to back it up.
February 29, 2012 -
Tiny 3-D chips
MIT researchers develop a new approach to producing three-dimensional microchips.
February 28, 2012 -
Delivering RNA with tiny sponge-like spheres
New RNA interference method holds promise for treating cancer, other diseases.
February 27, 2012