Mathematician finds balance and beauty in math
Zhiwei Yun seeks to connect seemingly disparate fields in mathematics.
Zhiwei Yun seeks to connect seemingly disparate fields in mathematics.
Overactive repair system promotes cell death following DNA damage by certain toxins, study shows.
Dance gives graduate student Lindsey Orgren an artistic outlet and fuels her passion for research, adding immeasurable value to her MIT experience.
Brent Minchew has flown presidents and foreign dignitaries on Marine One. Today he studies how ice sheets evolve and respond to changing climate.
Results show bacterial genomes provide “shadow history” of animal evolution.
New results show how varying the recipe could bring these materials closer to commercialization.
The need to produce just the right amount of protein is behind the striking uniformity of sizes.
Research from the lab of assistant professor of chemistry Gabriela Schlau-Cohen advances the understanding of plants' photosynthetic machinery.
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.
The dynamic process is critical to embryonic development and other cellular phenomena.
Antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs may help combat lung cancer.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.
MIT researchers use resonant X-ray scattering measurements to reveal unexpected “Wigner glass” in desirable superconducting material.
Professor Pawan Sinha addresses a humanitarian need — treatable blindness — and advances our understanding of visual development in the brain.