Used frying oil to power MIT shuttles
Student biodiesel group cooks up its first batches of fuel made from recycled oil from campus dining facilities
In Profile: Scott Manalis
His technology to weigh single cells led to an unexpected research focus: figuring out how cancerous cells escape normal growth controls.
Intel PhD fellowship recipients announced
Four students from the EECS have been named among this year's winners of the Intel PhD Fellowships
Sharing the air
Unused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left
A turning point in the struggle against cancer?
Using new tools, ideas and ways of working, MIT biologists and engineers hope to change paradigm.
Small springs could provide big power
Mechanical engineer Carol Livermore and colleagues find that carbon nanotubes, used as springs, have potential to compete with batteries for energy storage.
Braille made simple
MIT students develop device that could make labeling easier for the visually impaired. Product could be on the market next year.
Hidden waves pack a big punch
Thomas Peacock sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky
Concentrating emissions
Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering leads an MIT effort to make coal plants cleaner by using a pressurized combustion system to capture carbon dioxide.
Two chips in one
MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.
Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded
Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric
arrangement
Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A geotechnical engineer who served on the
panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina is the new head
of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Fish and chips
New robots mimic fish's swimming and could explore areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't currently go.
Researchers make carbon nanotubes without metal catalyst
Oxides, as well as metals, seem to be able to sprout carbon nanotubes, study finds
