School of Science

Valuing the trees through the forest

Competing demands for food, fuels, and forests

September 8, 2011

An artist's rendering of the twin GRAIL spacecraft orbiting the moon. The project uses two spacecraft flying in formation with known altitude amd separation distance to investigate the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.

To the moon

MIT-led GRAIL mission to map the lunar gravitational field.

September 8, 2011

School of Science honors graduate teachers

Math's Behrens, biology's Solomon win annual award

August 31, 2011

The researchers use an innovative method to analyze fMRI data subject by subject, allowing them to discern individual patterns of brain activity.

Localizing language in the brain

New study pinpoints areas of the brain used exclusively for language, providing a partial answer to a longstanding debate in cognitive science.

August 30, 2011

A new way to model urban air pollution

MIT researchers improve upon methods to model atmospheric aerosols.

August 29, 2011

MIT neuroscientists showed that activity in a part of the brain called the parahippocampal cortex correlates with the brain’s preparedness to learn new information.

Ready to learn? Brain scans can tell you

Neuroscientists identify brain activity that predicts how well you will remember images.

August 19, 2011

New research suggests that some parts of the brain perceive a scene and its mirror image as one and the same, meaning those regions are involved in scene categorization rather than navigation.

Scene perception versus action in the brain

Cognitive neuroscientists shed light on how the brain responds to scenes and their mirror-image reversals.

August 18, 2011

Meng Qu, a postdoc in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), was the lead author of the paper on improving scratch resistance.

A new approach to scratch resistance

Analysis by MIT researchers could lead to improved coatings using polymer-based nanocomposite materials.

August 17, 2011

Using a temperature-responsive micromold, MIT engineers created two-layer gel microparticles (the red and green areas represent separate layers).

Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny particle

New MIT technology could lead to better drug delivery and artificial tissues that imitate natural tissue.

August 16, 2011

Aerial image of vast blue ocean with reef

Breathing new life into Earth

New research shows evidence of early oxygen on our planet.

August 16, 2011

Emery N. Brown, professor of health sciences and technology and computational neuroscience at MIT.

Emery N. Brown receives the 2011 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research

August 12, 2011

Taken from the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, in the Beaufort Sea in September 2009.

On thin ice

The most recent global climate report fails to capture the reality of the changing Arctic seascape, according to MIT researchers.

August 10, 2011

Four from MIT selected as 2011 ACS fellows

August 8, 2011

A view looking southeast along the surface trace of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain. In this image, a road has been cut going through the fault (from left to right).

Putting the pieces together

MIT researchers reconstruct Baja California’s 2010 ‘Easter Earthquake.’

August 8, 2011

Four MIT graduate students win HHMI fellowships

August 5, 2011

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