School of Science

Professor Timothy F. Jamison, the new head of the Department of Chemistry

Timothy F. Jamison appointed next head of the Department of Chemistry

April 16, 2015

MIT sensor detects spoiled meat

Tiny device could be incorporated into “smart packaging” to improve food safety.

April 14, 2015

Shalek receives Searle Scholars Award

Award to Professor Alex Shalek will support new advances in nanotechnology and chemical biology.

April 14, 2015

An ocean of opportunity

Mick Follows uses tiny marine microbes to model climate change.

April 14, 2015

Jochem Marotzke to speak on what the warming “hiatus” means for climate change

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology will deliver the 15th annual Henry W. Kendall Lecture.

April 13, 2015

Two-dimensional images of human faces (top row) and front views of three-dimensional models of the same faces, produced by both a new MIT system (middle row) and one of its predecessors (bottom row).

Graphics in reverse

Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands.

April 13, 2015

At TED 2015, MIT visionaries reframe the future

At annual conference, creators and thinkers with MIT ties offered bold visions of the future.

April 10, 2015

MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn, center, speaks to Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES) researchers from MIT and Moscow State University during a meeting at the MIT Materials Processing Center in February. Listening are MIT Professor Paula Hammond (left) and Skoltech CEES Director Keith Stevenson, who is based in Moscow.

Fostering U.S.-Russia energy innovation

Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage brings together researchers from MIT and two Russian institutes to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells.

April 10, 2015

(Left to right) junior Mitchell Lee, sophomore Bobby Shen, mathematics professor Bjorn Poonen, freshman Mark Sellke, and sophomore Lingfu Zhang

Adding up to a big win

MIT dominates at annual Putnam Mathematical Competition, taking five of six top individual spots.

April 9, 2015

Letter regarding the new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

April 8, 2015

Deans announce new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

MIT-wide effort aims to bring the power of data to the people.

April 8, 2015

The top two panels show tumors produced by cancer cells. The outer ring of cells (blue) has enough oxygen to survive, but not as much oxygen reaches the inner cells. At top right, tumor cells lack the SHMT2 gene and are unable to survive in this central region, as indicated by the pink stain that marks a protein produced during cell death. At top left, the cells express high levels of SHMT2, allow...

Biologists identify brain tumor weakness

Discovery could offer a new target for treatment of glioblastoma.

April 8, 2015

First Northeast Amgen Scholars alumni event hosted by MIT

April 7, 2015