3 Questions: Jeffrey Hoffman on the Space Shuttle at 30
Anniversary of the first shuttle flight comes just as it nears retirement, but the vehicle has changed space travel dramatically.
Getting bacteria to do a plant’s job
Researchers engineer microbes for low-cost production of precursor of anticancer drug Taxol and other pharmaceuticals.
Landing Apollo via Cambridge
Former MIT Instrumentation Lab member recalls his contribution to the safe landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface.
Professor Emeritus Claude Shannon, founder of digital communications, dies at 84
Longtime MIT professor of electrical engineering and of mathematics pioneered information theory and helped lay the foundations for modern computing, cryptography, and artificial intelligence.