In The World: Helping Brazilians turn waste into products
International summit fosters ways of producing everything from food to flooring, using discarded materials.
Salvucci honored by Eno Center for Transportation
Civil and Environmental Engineering lecturer, research associate honored for lifetime achievements
Making Web applications more efficient
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.
Protein impedes microcirculation of malaria-infected red blood cells
MIT-led research team finds that protein significantly reduces infected cells’ ability to squeeze through tiny channels compared to healthy cells.
Researchers engineer light-activated skeletal muscle
Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts.
Connoisseur of chaos
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
Graves named Engineering Systems Division interim director
Sloan, ESD and mechanical engineering professor succeeds Sussman.
Merging tissue and electronics
New tissue scaffold could be used for drug development and implantable therapeutic devices.
Making crowdsourcing easier
A new system for crowdsourcing database operations spares the user from worrying about the computational details but improves cost effectiveness.
Engineers achieve longstanding goal of stable nanocrystalline metals
Method developed by MIT researchers could produce materials with exceptional strength and other properties.
One-molecule-thick material has big advantages
MIT researchers produce complex electronic circuits from molybdenum disulfide, a material that could have many more applications.
MIT-developed ‘microthrusters’ could propel small satellites
As small as a penny, these thrusters run on jets of ion beams.
New nanoparticles shrink tumors in mice
Particles that shut off cancer genes could also allow researchers to screen potential drug targets more rapidly.