A life filled with firsts
Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT’s first female graduate and faculty member, opened the door for women in science, and founded ecology and home economics along the way.
What's the price of environmental policies?
Joint Program report examines discrepancies in climate-change cost estimates
Putting up a struggle against cancer
Blood-vessel cells can combat aggressive tumors, helping to prevent them from spreading through the body, new study finds.
Prodigy of probability
Norbert Wiener gained fame as the father of cybernetics, but his earlier work on statistical descriptions of complex systems may prove more important.
How liquids behave
Researchers identify a fundamental property of how water and other liquids move at different temperatures.
And then there was light
Astronomers probe ancient radio waves for clues about the universe’s first light.
Canned, good
More than 100 years ago, 2 pioneering scientists figured out how to keep canned food safe.
Delivering a potent cancer drug with nanoparticles can lessen side effects
The new nanoparticle, which delivers the drug in a form activated when it reaches its target, also treats tumors more effectively than the unadorned drug in mice.
Hockfield discusses science, innovation and MIT150 on NPR
On eve of the Institute's anniversary, MIT president talks with On Point's Tom Ashbrook
The power of ‘convergence’
In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
On the trail of a stealthy parasite
Biologist Jeroen Saeij shows why some strains of Toxoplasma are more dangerous than others.
Understanding the anesthetized brain
Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works.
