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David Hagan, a Tata Fellow and MIT PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering, is designing and building low-cost sensors that could be deployed in dense networks to monitor air pollution.

Air quality sensors track pollution

Research from MIT's Tata Center for Technology and Design is helping to quantify emissions in the world’s most polluted cities.

June 15, 2016

“A big strand in my work has been to think about the important ways in which social identity, especially racial and ethnic identities, become really important in thinking about policies and justice in distributive issues,” MIT political scientist Evan Lieberman says.

Democracy now

Political scientist Evan Lieberman studies ethnic identity and African politics.

June 14, 2016

MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members

Term members will each serve five years on MIT’s board of trustees.

June 2, 2016

MIT mechanical engineering student Marie Elimbi Moudio

Finding wonderland

Senior Marie Elimbi Moudio enters a “weird place” and discovers a world of possibility.

May 27, 2016

Arrows indicate the spin direction in the ferromagnetic insulator (EuS, shown in red) and topological insulator (Bi2Se3, shown in blue) at the interface between the two materials.

Researchers find unexpected magnetic effect

Combining two thin-film materials yields surprising room-temperature magnetism.

May 9, 2016

“Migrants continue to consume the foods that were popular in their origin states, after they moved,” David Atkin says.

Counting calories

Migrants pay more for their home region’s cuisine, even when on the edge of malnutrition.

May 4, 2016

The Knight Science Journalism Program Class of 2016-17 includes journalists with backgrounds across a range of media platforms who will come to MIT from across the United States, and from France, Italy, Kenya, and Mexico.

Knight Science Journalism Program selects fellowship class of 2016-17

Ten journalists have been selected to join the KSJ Program at MIT, a global fellowship program for journalists covering science, technology, health, and the environment.

May 2, 2016

MIT Senior Research Scientist Jagadeesh Moodera stands in front of a custom-built system used to fabricate ultrathin films. His work includes devices that exhibit resistance-free, spin-polarized electrical current; enabling memory storage at the level of single molecules; and the search for the elusive Majorana fermions sought for quantum computing.

Research highlight: Jagadeesh Moodera

Step-by-step, the Moodera Research Group is building the essential knowledge and hardware for next-generation quantum computers.

April 29, 2016

Team wins prize for bringing rentable refrigeration to India’s food supply chain

Modular boxes that keep food shipments fresh win Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize.

April 29, 2016

Higher coal use in Asia could increase water stress

Aerosol emissions would slow warming but suppress rainfall.

April 28, 2016

Five with MIT ties are among 30 winners nationwide of the 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Clockwise from top left: Eran Hodis, Lindsey Osimiri ’14, Vishwajith Sridharan, Abubakar Abid ’15, and Suan Lian Tuang ’14.

Five from MIT win 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Awards fund graduate studies for immigrants and children of immigrants.

April 27, 2016

"The whole premise of our project is to harness the best science and innovation to bring education to the world’s most underresourced children," Cynthia Breazeal says. Pictured are students in Ethiopia.

Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

Project to provide children with tablets loaded with literacy apps reports encouraging results in Africa, U.S.

April 26, 2016

“Everybody agrees that on geological timescales over hundreds of millions of years, tectonics control the climate, but we didn’t know how to connect this,” says Oliver Jagoutz.

Study: Ancient tectonic activity was trigger for ice ages

Continental shifting may have acted as a natural mechanism for extreme carbon sequestration.

April 18, 2016

Tata Center announces new projects for 2016-2017

April 13, 2016

MIT researchers look to the future

Symposium explores rich variety of MIT endeavors, from X-ray vision to urban development.