3Q: Sarah Ballard on astrophysics and gender equity in science
Kavli Institute postdoc and 2015 L'Oreal USA For Women in Science Award winner speaks on her career and why roadblocks remain for women in science.
Kavli Institute postdoc and 2015 L'Oreal USA For Women in Science Award winner speaks on her career and why roadblocks remain for women in science.
Doug Spreng ’65 believes nanotechnology could hold the biggest payoffs — for everyone.
MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
Though likely uninhabitable, planet is rocky, Earth-sized, and near enough for study of its atmosphere.
Neuroscientists find that children’s ability to count is key to distributing resources based on merit.
MIT physicists share prize in fundamental physics; Larry Guth and Liang Fu win New Horizons Prizes.
Diamond spintronics and graphene-based infrared detectors are among leading-edge technologies reported at annual Materials Day Symposium at MIT.
MIT.nano is one of the most ambitious — and challenging — construction projects in Institute history. Why did we make it so hard for ourselves?
MIT researchers find that a similar principle predicts the growth of fractures and rivers.
Celebration of “above and beyond” support enters second year.
Shape of a landscape determines the thickness of Earth’s life-sustaining “critical zone.”
Neuroscientists identify brain region that holds objects in memory until they are spotted.
Gift will augment the Bridge Project, a collaborative project between the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and MIT's Koch Institute.
PhD student Abe Weintraub helps identify when DNA folding is helpful, and when it might cause cancer.
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology describes how atmospheric water contributes to climate change.