In Profile: Missy Cummings
Former U.S. Naval fighter pilot aims to improve how humans and computers interact.
A step toward lighter batteries
Research shows metal catalysts play important role in improving the efficiency of lithium-oxygen batteries
Charting a course toward cleaner cars
MIT team recommends strategy for reducing automotive fuel use, emissions
A manufacturing renaissance for America?
At an MIT forum, experts examine new ways to pursue a good old idea: making things.
Two seniors, one graduate student win $250,000 Hertz Fellowships
No-strings-attached awards last up to five years
Building peace between border zones, one diagnosis at a time
Moca Lab project wins 2010 Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship
A grand unified theory of AI
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
Pushing droplets around
MIT researchers find a way to make drops on a surface move in just one direction, with possible applications ranging from biology to electronics
Slackers and superstars of the microbial workplace
MIT chemical engineers find that yeast engineered to manufacture drugs vary widely in their productivity
A system that’s worth its salt
New approach to water desalination could lead to small, portable units that could be sent to disaster sites or remote locations.
Taming the wild phonon
‘Particles’ of heat are everywhere, and usually a nuisance, but newly designed materials could help put them to good use.
Nuclear science and engineering showcases doctoral research
Inaugural expo included poster session, research presentations
Web sites that can take a punch
By preventing web applications from deviating from their normal behavior, a new MIT system can keep them online even during a cyberattack.