Turning heat to electricity
MIT research points to a much more efficient way of harvesting electrical power from what would otherwise be wasted heat.
One word: bioplastics
At a new plant in Iowa, MIT-rooted technology will use bacteria to turn corn into biodegradable plastics.
Solving history’s ‘largest mass poisoning’
Research points to carbon in man-made ponds as catalyst for arsenic contamination in Bangladeshi wells
MIT Museum opens 'Visionary Engineer, Harold Edgerton'
On November 14th the MIT Museum hosts the opening celebration for the digital collections of Harold "Doc" Edgerton.
Cryptographic voting debuts
A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test last Tuesday.
Reporter's Notebook: MIT’s wheelchair tennis champ
Graduate student Marcus Causton just wants to hit
When Signals Cross: Medical Systems at CSAIL
Professor John Guttag and his team of graduate students are working in partnership with clinicians to produce technological solutions for medical problems.
Reporter's Notebook: Inventing language
MIT’s Barbara Liskov, winner of the Turing Award, describes how she helped lay the foundations for today’s programming languages.
What computer science can teach economics
Constantinos Daskalakis applies the theory of computational complexity to game theory, with consequences in a range of disciplines.
Energy, environment, health care discussed at annual Systems Thinking Conference
On Oct. 22-23, MIT faculty and industry leaders discussed the need for a systems-based approach to tackle complex challenges such as health care, energy, and the environment at the 2009 MIT conference on systems thinking for contemporary challenges.