Emotionally inspired engineering
Fueled by her roots in China, senior Emma Nelson tackles environmental issues with engineering.
Tunneling across a tiny gap
“Phonon tunneling” explains heat flow across nanometer-wide gaps, study finds.
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation launches manufacturing innovation consortium
Forum also honors Ravi Kumar, executive vice president of Infosys, with expanded role on its Technology Advisory Board.
Using sound waves to detect rare cancer cells
Acoustic device can rapidly isolate circulating tumor cells from patient blood samples.
Better sensors for medical imaging, contraband detection
Magnetic-field detector is 1,000 times more efficient than its predecessors.
Michael Collins: “I could have been the last person to walk on the moon”
Apollo 11 astronaut speaks at MIT about his experiences leading up to the first moon landing.
New evidence for how a rare form of liver cancer arises
MIT team finds mechanism by which exposure to vinyl chloride may produce cancerous mutations.
Engineering undergraduates characterize sulfur emissions from Hawaiian volcano
Kilauea volcanic smog study may lead to better understanding of effects on human health, infrastructure, and environment.
Diagnosis by keyboard
By revealing loss of motor skills, typing patterns may help to identify early onset of Parkinson’s.
Cerebral curiosity
Graduate student Steven Keating takes a problem-solving approach to his brain cancer.
Better traffic signals can cut greenhouse gas emissions
Analysis shows that smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic.
Reviewing online homework at scale
System clusters similar student programs together, so instructors can identify broad trends.
Analysis sees many promising pathways for solar photovoltaic power
New study identifies the promise and challenges facing large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaics.