MacVicar Day celebrates the chemistry of collaboration
Speakers honor Margaret MacVicar and Robert Silbey.
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A biplane to break the sound barrier
Cheaper, quieter and fuel-efficient biplanes could put supersonic travel on the horizon.
Freeing radicals from their negative connotations
Killian Award recipient JoAnne Stubbe says some free radicals can be good for you.
A climate window in the Southern Ocean
An updated circulation model reveals the Southern Ocean as a powerful influence on climate change.
An element that's rare on Earth is found far, far away
Tellurium detected for the first time in ancient stars.
Moving past trial and error
Richard Braatz applies math to design new materials and processes for drug manufacturing.
‘Storm of the Century?’ Try ‘Storm of the Decade’
With climate change, today’s ‘100-year floods’ may happen every three to 20 years, according to new research.
MIT honors Martin Luther King Jr. at 38th annual breakfast
Diversity and education among breakfast-table topics.
MIT and the Civil War
President Susan Hockfield speaks on the struggle for America’s future — then and now.
MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Talks explore the mind/machine interface and the science of predicting the economy, among other topics.