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Stacy Pyron, of the Lemelson Program, left, catches up with smoking-cessation specialist in MIT Medical's Health Promotion and Wellness Lauren Mayhew, who helped Stacy quit smoking some 7 months ago.

MIT helps smokers quit

May 12, 2009

Engineering first again in U.S. News graduate rankings

April 23, 2009

Q&A with Joseph Coughlin on AGNES and the AgeLab

April 14, 2009

A rendering of the MIT team's proposal for the Denver Design District, which won them first place in the annual Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.

SA+P team wins major urban design competition

Proposal for Denver district's redevelopment is awarded top prize of $50,000

April 7, 2009

Understanding Our Blind Spots

Leading economist Andrew W. Lo discusses the challenges and opportunities the current economic crisis presents

March 23, 2009

A 'contrast chimera' of Albert Einstein, in which MIT researchers took the negative of an image, then reversed the contrast of the eyes so they appeared normal.

A human failure, seen at face value

Research probes why we have difficulty recognizing faces in photo negatives

March 13, 2009

Lars G. Josefsson, President and CEO of the European energy group, Vattenfall, speaks at the 2009 MIT Energy Conference.

Energy opportunities seen amid crisis

Conference speakers cite chances for progress

March 9, 2009

Altered brain connectivity of default brain network in persons with schizophrenia...

Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may cause exaggerated focus on self

Study links schizophrenia to key 'default mode' in brain

January 19, 2009

Tuning in to unconscious communication

MIT researchers discover revealing clues in conversations

October 21, 2008

<a href="http://cvcl.mit.edu/MM/demo.html" target="_blank">Demo of massive memory study</a>

MIT researchers find memory capacity much bigger than previously thought

September 8, 2008

MIT professor Lucian W. Pye, leading China scholar, dies at 86

September 8, 2008

Aerial photo of flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Rethinking rebuilding in New Orleans

September 2, 2008

MIT associate professor Josh Tenenbaum and his former student, Charles Kemp, have developed a computer algorithm that can select the best type of structure to fit a set of data. Such structures, shown here, include linear order, rings and clusters.

MIT model helps computers sort data more like humans

August 25, 2008

An aeronautics and astronautics project led by MIT researcher Chuck Oman aims to provide better training systems for astronauts to learn how to use robotic arms in space. At left, Joseph Silverman, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, tries his hand with the joysticks that control the robotic arm. At right is graduate student Zakiya Tomlinson, who is running the experiment.

MIT project seeks to arm robotic training with data

May 28, 2008

Thought provoker: MIT's Rebecca Saxe probes mechanics of judgment, beliefs

May 14, 2008

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