Two seniors, one graduate student win $250,000 Hertz Fellowships
No-strings-attached awards last up to five years
Building peace between border zones, one diagnosis at a time
Moca Lab project wins 2010 Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship
A grand unified theory of AI
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
Pushing droplets around
MIT researchers find a way to make drops on a surface move in just one direction, with possible applications ranging from biology to electronics
Slackers and superstars of the microbial workplace
MIT chemical engineers find that yeast engineered to manufacture drugs vary widely in their productivity
A system that’s worth its salt
New approach to water desalination could lead to small, portable units that could be sent to disaster sites or remote locations.
Taming the wild phonon
‘Particles’ of heat are everywhere, and usually a nuisance, but newly designed materials could help put them to good use.
Nuclear science and engineering showcases doctoral research
Inaugural expo included poster session, research presentations
Web sites that can take a punch
By preventing web applications from deviating from their normal behavior, a new MIT system can keep them online even during a cyberattack.
Self-assembling computer chips
Molecules that arrange themselves into predictable patterns on silicon chips could lead to microprocessors with much smaller circuit elements.
Zooming in on cells
New microscopy technique offers close-up, real-time view of how proteins kill bacteria
Unraveling silks’ secrets
A new analysis of the structure of silks explains the paradox at the heart of their super-strength, and may lead to even stronger synthetic materials.