CEE's Humbyrd wins School of Engineering teaching and mentoring award
Award recognizes and encourages extraordinary teaching and mentoring by a graduate student in the school.
New router enhances the precision of woodworking
Handheld device precisely follows a digital plan with minimal guidance from a user.
New study finds link between cell division and growth rate
Findings answer puzzling question of how cells know when to progress through the cell cycle.
Bringing power to the people — and heat as well
Sun-powered system developed by MIT students could provide electricity, heat and cooling to rural schools and clinics.
Researchers build a toolbox for synthetic biology
Engineers design new proteins that can help control novel genetic circuits in cells.
Research update: SPHERES to get powerful magnets and goggles
New wireless power and camera setups will expand the mini-satellites’ vision and navigation capabilities.
Writing graphics software gets much easier
A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer — but also faster.
3 Questions: Anette Hosoi on engineering and the Olympics
Got Olympic fever? Dive into the mechanics of a fast pool
Wrinkled surfaces could have widespread applications
MIT team discovers way of making perfectly ordered and repeatable surfaces with patterns of microscale wrinkles.
10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls
Interactive proofs — mathematical games that underlie much modern cryptography — work even if players try to use quantum information to cheat.
New aircraft capable of fast, accurate and repeatable flight
CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group unveils new computer-controlled aircraft that can perform knife-edge turns.
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation launches Manufacturing Technology Advisory Board; Infosys joins board
Leaders from academia and the technology industry will work together to share ideas and plan ways to help transform U.S. manufacturing.