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
Stimulating sight
Led by electrical engineering professor John Wyatt, team develops retinal implant that could help restore useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people
Used frying oil to power MIT shuttles
Student biodiesel group cooks up its first batches of fuel made from recycled oil from campus dining facilities
In Profile: Scott Manalis
His technology to weigh single cells led to an unexpected research focus: figuring out how cancerous cells escape normal growth controls.
Intel PhD fellowship recipients announced
Four students from the EECS have been named among this year's winners of the Intel PhD Fellowships
Sharing the air
Unused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left
A turning point in the struggle against cancer?
Using new tools, ideas and ways of working, MIT biologists and engineers hope to change paradigm.
Small springs could provide big power
Mechanical engineer Carol Livermore and colleagues find that carbon nanotubes, used as springs, have potential to compete with batteries for energy storage.
Braille made simple
MIT students develop device that could make labeling easier for the visually impaired. Product could be on the market next year.
Hidden waves pack a big punch
Thomas Peacock sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky
Concentrating emissions
Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering leads an MIT effort to make coal plants cleaner by using a pressurized combustion system to capture carbon dioxide.
Two chips in one
MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.