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.
On the hunt for mathematical beauty
Alexei Borodin uses sophisticated tools to extract information from large groups.
Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells
Simply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory.