Faster computer graphics
Digitally mimicking the photographic blur caused by moving objects is surprisingly hard, but new research offers ways to make it easier.
‘Artificial leaf’ moves closer to reality
MIT researchers develop a device that combines a solar cell with a catalyst to split water molecules and generate energy.
Warren Max Rohsenow, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 90
Pioneered research in gas turbines and nuclear reactors
Turning off cancer’s growth signals
Biological engineers’ new approach to shutting down cell division could lead to new cancer drugs.
Streamlined rules for robots
New algorithms make it easier to write rules for distributed-computing systems, such as networks of sensors, servers or robots.
Cookies, anyone?
Graduate student Mario Bollini of Professor Daniela Rus' Distributed Robotics Lab is currently programming the PR2 robot to bake chocolate chip cookies.
New battery design could give electric vehicles a jolt
Significant advance in battery architecture could be breakthrough for electric vehicles and grid storage.
MIT for Two
When Noramay Cadena ’03, MS ’11, MBA ’11 arrived on campus as an 18-year-old freshman, she brought along her toddler. When she returned to earn two graduate degrees, her daughter felt right at home.
Long live the qubit!
The power of quantum computers depends on keeping them in a fragile quantum-mechanical state — which researchers have found a new way to extend.
Researchers redefine the old ‘scratch test’
The centuries-old test for strength actually determines fracture resistance of materials.
Peraire named head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Computational aerodynamics specialist succeeds Ian Waitz, who was named dean of engineering