Video: Learning by design
Edgerton Center-run workshop gives high school students a hands-on tutorial in engineering.
Edgerton Center-run workshop gives high school students a hands-on tutorial in engineering.
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory welcomes one of its latest additions (and alumnus): Assistant Professor Julie Shah.
Error-correcting codes discovered at MIT can still guarantee reliable communication, even in cellphones with failure-prone low-power chips.
An MIT researcher looks at a growing trend in a number of developing countries: national satellite programs.
New technologies intended to boost reliance on renewable energy could destabilize the power grid if they’re not matched with careful pricing policies.
A new tool interrupts the ‘infinite loops’ that cause computer hang-ups, letting users save data and finish tasks before restarting a stalled program.
Amyloids, associated with Alzheimer’s and other diseases, could be inspiration for tough synthetic polymers.
Experiments support controversial theory about how water behaves in confined spaces, providing insights for biology and manufacturing.
MIT team designs concentrated solar thermal system that could store heat in vats of molten salts, supplying constant power.
Study finds that for people with dyslexia, it’s much harder to identify who is speaking.
Materials engineered to give off precisely tuned wavelengths of light when heated are key to new high-efficiency generating system.
MIT students to build imaging instrument to fly aboard mission to an asteroid.
Mission is big step toward human exploration of Mars, according to MIT’s Maria Zuber.