In the cloud: How coughs and sneezes float farther than you think
Novel study uncovers the way coughs and sneezes stay airborne for long distances.
Novel study uncovers the way coughs and sneezes stay airborne for long distances.
New MIT analysis probes charge transfer in porous battery electrodes for the first time.
New MITx MOOC brings the street fighting approach to solving math problems.
Research could boost the efficiency even of huge networks like the Internet.
Marshall Scholar Kirin Sinha is motivating young women to pursue math through dance.
New research shows negative absolute temperatures — and perpetual motion machines — are still out of reach.
Rhodes Scholar John Mikhael, who calls both the U.S. and Lebanon home, is also comfortable in many scientific fields.
Created by OEIT's ARTEMiS group, the Plate Tectonics interactive visualization challenges students to interpret a 3-D globe of tectonic data, providing animations of the opening and closing of ocean basins and the splitting of Pangaea.
Mathematician has been a member of the faculty since 1980 and department head since 2004.
Kate Koch, Colleen Loynachan, Kirin Sinha, and Grace Young will study for two years in the UK.
Recent MIT graduate in mathematics, who has also conducted research in neuroscience, will study at Oxford next year.
Mechanisms behind water bugs and lilies applied to culinary devices.
Senior Kirin Sinha has founded an after-school program to connect seventh-grade girls with MIT female student-mentors.
MIT researchers expand the range of quantum behaviors that can be replicated in fluidic systems, offering a new perspective on wave-particle duality.
MIT researchers discover a new phenomenon that could lead to new types of lasers and sensors.