Spin designers
Caroline Ross and Geoffrey Beach are studying how the “spin” of electrons on nanomagnets could be manipulated to create faster, more energy-efficient computers.
Undaunted by the unknown
Senior Katie Bodner thrives in synthetic biology, where guidelines are just being established.
Study: Disparities seen in immigrant application results
Latin Americans approved for labor certification less often.
Using light to produce natural sleep patterns
Researchers use optogenetics to trigger REM sleep in mice.
Drones, Bitcoin, and robotic fish
Here are eight of the coolest things that happened at CSAIL in 2014.
Taking the grunt work out of Web development
New programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web page components.
Could birdsong help us solve stuttering?
New CSAIL genomics work suggests vocalizing birds could tell us more about speech disorders.
Trapping light with a twister
New understanding of how to halt photons could lead to miniature particle accelerators, improved data transmission.
Study: Industrial clusters fuel economies
New study shows clusters, across fields, help growth, jobs, and innovation.
New horizons for self-assembling materials
3-D-printable materials deform to change surface area, enabling curvature rather than rigid folding.
In one aspect of vision, computers catch up to primate brain
Newest computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain.
Out of the lab, into the world
Rhodes Scholar Anisha Gururaj aims to connect life-changing technologies with people who need them.
Life on an aquaplanet
MIT study finds an exoplanet, tilted on its side, could still be habitable if covered in ocean.
3Q: Hacking Ebola health care
More than 100 spend a weekend devising better personal protections, diagnostics, and medical records in the face of a deadly disease.