Thousands spend Saturday at MIT
‘Under the Dome’ showcases discovery and innovation; first open house in decades.
Exploring exploration
From deep space to deep sea, two-day symposium examined MIT’s impacts and innovations.
Moving climate change regulation forward
U.S. chief climate negotiator, MIT panel examine the science and policy of global warming.
3 Questions: Why Richard Feynman’s lectures still mesmerize
MIT Professor Robert Jaffe reflects on Feynman’s classic lectures five decades later, as the videos are released online.
Seeing the light
Optogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.
New American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows include 4 from MIT
Gates, Page, Shor and Stewart among 212 new members.
Study: U.S. drought risk to increase with climate change
While impacts will vary by region, projections indicate that drought frequency will increase throughout most of the contiguous United States.
The bouncing gas
Clouds of gases that bounce off each other could help physicists model the behavior of high-temperature superconductors and other unusual materials.
Shedding light on a longstanding puzzle
Study of blind children in India helps answer a 300-year-old philosophical question.
Cold asteroids may have a soft heart
Partially molten small bodies may be abundant in space, and may have given the Earth its oceans.
Understanding why lung cancer spreads
MIT biologists pinpoint a genetic change that helps tumors move to other parts of the body.