Taming the wild phonon
‘Particles’ of heat are everywhere, and usually a nuisance, but newly designed materials could help put them to good use.
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An open, collaborative space
New Media Lab building is designed to foster collaboration, sharing, communication and experimentation.
Four professors named 2010 MacVicar Faculty Fellows
Hosoi, Rajagopal, Ram and Richards honored for excellence in undergraduate teaching
MISTI Global Seed Funds winners announced
Covering an astonishing range of topics, 43 international faculty research projects received almost $700K in funding from the MISTI Global Seed Funds competition.
Team predicts satellite could locate hundreds of Earth-sized planets
Researchers say proposed satellite could represent astronomy’s ‘next big leap’ — one that may help find signs of life elsewhere in the universe.
A massive star is born
Time-lapse movie shows that massive stars — which may hold clues about the origins of life — form like their smaller siblings.
Rethinking artificial intelligence
Broad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.
Dana Mead to step down as MIT Corporation chairman in June
Executive Committee will lead the search for a successor
A faraway planet intrigues
An exoplanet with an extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy.
Explained: P vs. NP
The most notorious problem in theoretical computer science remains open, but the attempts to solve it have led to profound insights.
New methods are changing old materials
Computational approach to materials science could bring new properties even to familiar substances such as concrete and steel
MIT’s Male Math Maze: no doubt things have changed ... or have they?
An autobiographical account of MIT's math department in the 1980s by playwright and performer Gioia De Cari SM '88 has sold out its run at the Central Square Theater and generated widespread discussion about how much, or how little, things have changed at MIT.