Quantifying the impacts of large-scale irrigation on rainfall
A new study describes how irrigation development modifies local and regional climate.
Pluto Revealed! An update from New Horizons
Professor Richard Binzel, NASA New Horizons science team co-PI, shares mission results on Sept. 9.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Wine matching: Tasty uses for algorithms
A pair of Class of 2010 roommates, entrepreneurial buddies while on campus, recently teamed up to launch a wine club based on big data.
Customizing 3-D printing
Design tool lets novices do in minutes what would take experts in computer-aided design hours.
Metallic gels produce tunable light emission
New family of luminescent materials could find broad uses in chemical and biological detectors.
Upholding disarmament agreements with engineering
PhD student Ruaridh Macdonald develops a tool to identify nuclear weapons without divulging too much.
Self-driving golf carts
Autonomous vehicles share sidewalk space with pedestrians in six-day trial in Singaporean public garden.
Seth Lloyd, leading quantum mechanics expert, appointed Nam P. Suh Professor
New professorship is a gift from MIT alumnus Hock Tan '75, SM '75.
Fire-and-ice discoveries
From igniting carbon fibers to freeze-drying hydrogels, MIT Summer Scholars learn pioneering scientific techniques during nine-week internships.
Observing invisible vibrations
PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.
Sow-Hsin Chen wins 2015 Guinier Prize
Nuclear science and engineering professor emeritus honored for novel uses of small-angle scattering in the study of matter.
Nuts, bolts, and slurry walls
A how-it’s-made seminar series shines light on MIT.nano, an historic campus construction project.
MIT Technology Review announces seven innovators over 70
Professors emeritus Sidney Yip and Judith Jarvis Thomson honored for their continued innovations.
Study identifies new cheating method in MOOCs
Research from MIT and Harvard shows how to exploit and protect MOOC certification.