Predicting sediment flow in coastal vegetation
Model could help engineers design erosion-prevention strategies in marshes, wetlands, aquatic forests.
Pneumonia found to harm DNA in lung cells
Hydrogen peroxide produced by some bacteria causes DNA double-strand breaks, cell suicide.
Can phone data detect real-time unemployment?
Study: Usage patterns vary when people are not working.
National Geographic identifies six from MIT community as "Emerging Explorers"
Students, researchers, and alumni among 14 honored as "young trailblazers."
Teaching development skills on three continents
Annual summit expands to three sessions, focused on recycling, health care, and empowering desert communities.
Centimeter-long origami robot
Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight.
Surfaces get smooth or bumpy on demand
MIT research produces soft material with controllable surface textures that can be varied by squeezing.
Robotics competition generated groundbreaking research
MIT team based robotic control algorithms on cutting-edge theory.
Improving prevention of and responses to flu outbreaks
New research suggests ways to reduce the likelihood that individuals and groups will become infected with influenza.
Longstanding problem put to rest
Proof that a 40-year-old algorithm is the best possible will come as a relief to computer scientists.
Breaking down social networks in a city
New research finds urban social networks are not determined geographically, but socially.
Professor Emeritus James Fay dies at 91
Longtime MIT professor and member of the National Academy of Engineering made important contributions to fluid mechanics.