Crash-tolerant data storage
Formally verified working file system could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.
Unveiling a maritime legacy
New MIT Museum exhibit to explore life and career of influential ship designer and alumnus Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff.
A metabolic master switch underlying human obesity
Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat.
2015 Global Risk Maturity Survey launched
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and Infosys Global Risk Advisory Group survey aims to better understand how industry perceives risk and challenges.
Unusual magnetic behavior observed at a material interface
Findings could lead to a building block for future quantum computers, and a research tool for physics.
Going solid-state could make batteries safer and longer-lasting
New research paves the way for rechargeable batteries with almost indefinite lifetimes, researchers say.
Capturing cell growth in 3-D
Spinout’s microfluidics device better models how cancer and other cells interact in the body.
Dirty physics
Franz-Josef Ulm explores the physics of dirty materials and messy systems to advance sustainable infrastructure and clean energy technology.
Training ‘small-planet’ engineers
‘Global Principles’ course challenges students at MIT and the University of Tokyo to develop a cross-cultural, systems approach to materials science and engineering.
MIT community: #ILookLikeanEngineer
MIT alumni, staff, faculty, and students enthusiastically join a social media campaign supporting diversity in engineering.
Could a pen change how we diagnose brain function?
Team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab detects dementia using AI and a digital pen.