Making clean, high-quality fuels from low-quality oil New insights into a promising approach to fuel production that would reduce costs, energy use, and carbon dioxide emissions. July 17, 2015 Read full story →
A spot market for water Sourcewater pioneers an exchange for trading and recycling water for oil and gas production and other operations. July 16, 2015 Read full story →
Toward cheaper water treatment MIT spinout makes treating, recycling highly contaminated oilfield water more economical July 15, 2015 Read full story →
Solving mysteries of conductivity in polymers Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets. July 14, 2015 Read full story →
“A new leadership cadre for science and engineering” MIT and Total partner to improve technical instruction in African universities. July 14, 2015 Read full story →
Data-driven design MIT-hosted urban planning conference highlights explosion of information on cities. July 14, 2015 Read full story →
Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour. July 9, 2015 Read full story →
Why do puddles stop spreading? Simple everyday phenomenon was unexplained by physics — until now. July 9, 2015 Read full story →
High school students find their MathROOTS at MIT Program aims to inspire female and underrepresented minority students to pursue STEM fields. July 8, 2015 Read full story →
Materials science master class Professor W. Craig Carter leads a collaborative effort to build a materials science curriculum online with integrated programming and active student engagement. July 7, 2015 Read full story →
CSAIL report: Giving government special access to data poses major security risks Whether “backdoor” or “front-door,” government access imperils your data, report authors say. July 7, 2015 Read full story →
Automatic bug repair System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code. June 29, 2015 Read full story →
Podcast: Explaining the art behind data Society has access to more data than ever before. How do we make sense of it all? June 26, 2015 Read full story →
Medical anthropology Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health. June 26, 2015 Read full story →
Modeling how thin films break up Recent PhD recipient Rachel Zucker models phenomena collectively known as "dewetting" in microscale to nanoscale thin films. June 18, 2015 Read full story →