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.
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A spot market for water
Sourcewater pioneers an exchange for trading and recycling water for oil and gas production and other operations.
Toward cheaper water treatment
MIT spinout makes treating, recycling highly contaminated oilfield water more economical
Solving mysteries of conductivity in polymers
Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets.
“A new leadership cadre for science and engineering”
MIT and Total partner to improve technical instruction in African universities.
Data-driven design
MIT-hosted urban planning conference highlights explosion of information on cities.
Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour.
High school students find their MathROOTS at MIT
Program aims to inspire female and underrepresented minority students to pursue STEM fields.
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.
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.
Automatic bug repair
System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code.
Podcast: Explaining the art behind data
Society has access to more data than ever before. How do we make sense of it all?
Medical anthropology
Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health.
Modeling how thin films break up
Recent PhD recipient Rachel Zucker models phenomena collectively known as "dewetting" in microscale to nanoscale thin films.