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MIT engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid.
Mathematician Michael Sipser to step down as dean of the School of Science.
Study finds microbes can alter an environment dramatically before dying out.
The survey, deployed every four years, is a unique, confidential forum for community input.
WBUR’s Cristela Guerra highlights a new exhibit at the MIT List Visual Arts Center called “Colored People Time.” The exhibit “turns time on its head,” Guerra explains, and “dives into questions of race, colonization, and reparations."
A new study suggests a path to more efficient error correction, which may help make quantum computers and sensors more practical.
Study finds Earth’s oceans contain just the right amount of iron; adding more may not improve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
Introduced to the Institute through MITx and MIT Bootcamps, Jakub Chudik is now a senior in EECS and CTO of his own startup.
Former VP of global communications at the Ford Foundation brings 20 years of experience advancing the missions of international organizations.
Design combines a common diaper material with RFID technology.
Exonerated Central Park Five member Kevin Richardson details his harrowing experiences and his hopeful vision for the future.
Verge reporter Thomas Ricker writes that MIT researchers have developed a new RFID sensor that could be used to detect moisture in diapers and send an alert to caregivers. “The sensor can be manufactured for less than 2 cents, making it suitable for disposable diapers without adding bulk,” Ricker explains.
Atlantic reporter Conor Friedersdorf highlights a new study by MIT researchers that shows handwashing at airports could help reduce the spread of disease.
Graduate student Clara Park speaks with Ira Flatow of Science Friday about her work developing a bionic heart that could be used to test cardiac devices. Park explains that she and her colleagues fused a real heart “with robotic muscles to mimic the realistic motions and anatomy of the heart.”
MIT researchers have developed a new smart diaper that can send caregivers a message when it detects moisture, reports Caroline Enos for The Boston Globe. “A small moisture sensor in the diaper contains a radio frequency identification tag, which transmits a radio signal to a nearby receiver when the diaper becomes wet,” Enos writes.
MIT researchers have identified security flaws in a mobile voting application that allowed some overseas and military citizens to vote remotely, reports Lydia Emmanouilidou for PRI’s The World. “When things are opaque — when you can't verify, when you can't see what the code is doing,” says graduate student Michael Specter, “there is no way of vetting that it's doing the right thing.”
MIT researchers have found that a new mobile voting application has a number of potential security vulnerabilities, reports Hiawatha Bray for The Boston Globe. The researchers found that “a hacking attack on the app could intercept votes, and possibly alter them, before they had been encrypted for secure transmission.”
Fast Company reporter Mark Sullivan spotlights a new study by MIT researchers that provides evidence that a popular voting app could allow hackers to alter, stop or expose how users have voted.
