Improbability Walk at MIT.nano honors Mildred Dresselhaus
Courtyard space celebrates beloved professor’s research and mentorship.
Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas
Device may enable “T-ray vision” and better wireless communication.
Using light to generate order in an exotic material
Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses produces a previously unseen phase of matter.
Visualizing an AI model’s blind spots
New tool highlights what generative models leave out when reconstructing a scene.
New pathway for lung cancer treatment
MIT researchers identify pyrimidine biosynthesis as a target for the treatment of small cell lung cancer.
MIT.nano announces the Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lectures
Cornell University’s Paul McEuen will inaugurate series to honor beloved MIT professor.
Chemists observe “spooky” quantum tunneling
Extremely large electric fields can prevent umbrella-shaped ammonia molecules from inverting.
Student gets a kick out of French internship
Math and computer science major tweaks soccer accelerometer’s algorithms and expands his worldview via MIT-France.
School of Science appoints 14 faculty members to named professorships
Those selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.
What makes an image memorable? Ask a computer
An artificial intelligence model developed at MIT shows in striking detail what makes some images stick in our minds.
Drawn to open-ended problems
Whether racing cross country or teaching coding in rural schools, senior Billy Woltz relishes experimentation and creative thinking.
New synthesis method yields degradable polymers
Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer alternative to some industrial plastics.
Collision course: A geological mystery in the Himalayas
MIT geologists use paleomagnetism to determine the chain of events that resulted in the Himalayan mountains, with the support of MISTI-India.
Supercomputer analyzes web traffic across entire internet
Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more.
Putting the “bang” in the Big Bang
Physicists simulate critical “reheating” period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second.