Comparing apples and oranges
New sensor can accurately measure fruits’ ripeness, helping prevent loss of produce from spoilage.
Communicating the climate challenge
New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at Earth Day colloquium.
Institute faculty share prestigious neuroscience prize
Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang awarded the Perl/UNC Neuroscience Prize
Pinpointing how antibiotics work
Team uncovers mechanism that produces fatal DNA damage in bacteria.
Facing the facts about our changing climate
MIT researchers join Boston Globe panel in weighing climate risks and resolutions.
Four from MIT win prestigious Guggenheim fellowships
Doeleman, Hughes, Makan and Yablo among 181 recipients for 2012.
Two from MIT named Goldwater Scholars
Undergraduates receive top honor in collegiate math, science and engineering education.
Predicting how proteins will partner
Amy Keating models critical interactions that underlie most cellular functions.
MIT graduate students head to Capitol Hill to deliver research-funding petition
More than 10,000 signed petition in support of science and engineering work.
Faster way to probe proteins
Infrared spectroscopy allows scientists to analyze protein structure on an ultrafast timescale.