Energy savings in black and white
MIT students develop concept for color-changing roof tiles that absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer.
Hobby Shop project garners Popular Mechanics magazine award
Greg Schroll '08 named "Most Brilliant Innovator" for his spherical robot.
To peer inside a living cell
Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.
Widnall receives NAE Bueche Award
The National Academy of Engineering presents MIT Institute Professor and Professor of Aeronautics Sheila E. Windall (‘60, MS ’61, PhD ’64) its Arthur M. Bueche Award for expanding engineering opportunities for women and minorities.
Stay focused
The Computer Graphics Group sharpens photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images instead of a single higher-quality image.
AeroAstro's Castonia named USAF Cadet of the Year
AeroAstro student Cadet Col. Ryan W. Castonia has been named U.S. Air Force Cadet of the Year by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz.
Whose Internet is it, anyway?
One of the Internet's chief architects looks at the FCC's proposed Net neutrality rules.
In the World: A better way to beat around the bush
International teams in Ghana tackle local needs of village farmers for better methods and devices to harvest their crops
Harnessing nanopatterns
New findings show that tiny textures on a surface can produce big differences in how some materials, and even living cells, behave
