Students develop assistive technologies
Undergraduate teams create helpful phone apps and devices for people with disabilities.
AIAA honors David Mindell for ‘Digital Apollo’
MIT professor’s book earns Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award.
How to stop leaks — the way blood does
Harnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.
Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries
MIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.
Students invited to become Gordon Engineering Leaders
Program provides students with the opportunity to strengthen engineering leadership skills.
Remembering ‘Papa Flash’
MIT Professor Harold Edgerton’s high-speed photography and sonar devices revolutionized ocean exploration.
Two MIT professors win prestigious Wolf Prize
Michael Artin and Robert Langer honored for groundbreaking work in mathematics and chemistry.
Research update: Jumping droplets help heat transfer
Scalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers could make for more efficient power generation and desalination.
Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor
New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.
Professor Roger Kamm visualizes sneaky tumor cells with 3-D assay
Kamm is studying the mechanics of metastasis, the process of cancer-cell migration from one location in the body to another and the cause of more than 90 percent of cancer deaths.
Recent Course X grad named one of Forbes magazine's '30 Under 30'
Pedro Valencia PhD '12 honored for drug research.
Chisholm, Langer awarded nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
Two MIT professors are awarded the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Flexible, light solar cells could provide new opportunities
MIT researchers develop a new approach using graphene sheets coated with nanowires.
Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups
Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.
New experiments, new insights into stress corrosion cracking
MIT researchers now have new insights into how 'stress corrosion cracking' may be affected by nanoscale disruptions in the crystalline structure of metallic materials.