MIT students teach hands-on learning abroad
MISTI Global Teaching Labs attracts students looking to share the Institute's unique approach to science and engineering education.
Two MIT juniors named Truman Scholars
McCord, Okuneye awarded $30,000 for graduate study toward careers in government, non-profits.
Two from MIT named Goldwater Scholars
Undergraduates receive top honor in collegiate math, science and engineering education.
Predicting how proteins will partner
Amy Keating models critical interactions that underlie most cellular functions.
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
Mysterious electron acceleration explained
Computer simulation identifies source of aurora-causing high-speed electrons in space
Making droplets drop faster
New nanopatterned surfaces could improve the efficiency of powerplants and desalination systems.
Three MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Gedik, Matusik and Pathak among 126 researchers selected.
Ashoori awarded $1.7 million grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Physics professor studying 'time domain capacitance spectroscopy.'
MIT team promotes prostate cancer prognosis tool
Group is a semifinalist in MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
My connectome, myself
Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung is on a quest to map brain connections that reveal how our memories and personalities take root.
Turning heat into power
A new kind of high-temperature photonic crystal could someday power everything from smartphones to spacecraft.
Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time
Materials scientist explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels.
Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away
Discovery could offer clues on the nature of dark matter.