Solving carbon mysteries of the deep ocean
New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.
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3 Questions: Amy Finkelstein on testing health care systems
MIT economist explains why randomized trials can improve medical care.
Report outlines path to greater campus inclusiveness
Institute Community and Equity Officer releases report aimed at fostering culture of respect and caring.
Tackling the “Achilles’ heel” of OLED displays
Inkjet-printing system could enable mass-production of large-screen and flexible OLED displays.
New faculty in engineering
Twelve new faces join six academic departments in the School of Engineering.
Decoding sugar addiction
Separate neural circuits control sugar cravings and healthy eating, researchers find.
Replicating a simple but elegant experiment
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's installation of a pendulum re-creates Foucault's seminal demonstration of Earth's rotation.
Optimizing optimization algorithms
Analysis shows how to get the best results when approximating solutions to complex engineering problems.
Lincoln Laboratory hosts first "Make Your Own Wearables" workshop for high-school girls
Hands-on projects in wearable technology introduce girls to mechanical design and electrical engineering.
Evolutionary approaches to big-data problems
Una-May O'Reilly applies machine learning and evolutionary algorithms to tackle some of the world's biggest big-data challenges.
A week at MIT
Workshop on quantitative methods in biology draws diverse undergrads from across the country.
Top tweets of 2014
Best of the year on @MIT include a robot cheetah, next-generation spacesuits, and Tetris tater tots.
Could birdsong help us solve stuttering?
New CSAIL genomics work suggests vocalizing birds could tell us more about speech disorders.
In one aspect of vision, computers catch up to primate brain
Newest computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain.