Faster websites with fewer bugs
System that automatically handles database caching in server farms increases speed and reliability.
RNA hitches a ride on ultrasound waves
Technique enables rapid delivery of RNA to treat colon inflammation.
Art, engineering, and architecture
Freshman seminar inspires students to see the world with fresh eyes.
SMART automation
MIT Professor Daniela Rus combines automation and mobility to create a smarter world.
Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
MIT engineer’s research on surfaces is improving everything from power plants to ketchup bottles.
Study: Technological progress alone won’t stem resource use
Researchers find no evidence of an overall reduction in the world’s consumption of materials.
Taming data
System finds and links related data scattered across digital files, for easy querying and filtering.
Featured video: Paint by numbers
Meet Glenn Silva, the man who's been hand-painting names and numbers on MIT doors for over two decades.
Study tracks “memory” of soil moisture
First year of data from SMAP satellite provides new insights for weather, agriculture, and climate.
Feng Zhang named James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience
CRISPR pioneer named to inaugural chair created by Patricia and James Poitras '63, founders of MIT’s Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research.
Two from MIT share National Academy of Engineering Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
Professor James Fujimoto, Eric Swanson SM '84, and collaborators lauded for optical coherence tomography.
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Creating “big, beautiful things”
Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.
Otto Harling, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering, dies at 85
Longtime Nuclear Research Lab director made advances in nuclear and condensed-matter physics, nuclear materials, reactor technology, and nuclear medicine.