Creating a permanent bacteria barrier
Startup Semprus Biosciences develops a permanent solution for keeping bacteria off implanted medical devices.
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Thinking globally
Scholar and administrator Bernd Widdig holds a newly created position at MIT: director of international affairs.
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
Ann Wolpert, director of libraries, has died at 70
Served MIT for 17 years; was leading light on role of the research library in the digital age.
Under the sea
MIT senior Grace Young’s love of marine robotics will lead her to spend up to a month underwater this semester, collecting data and teaching classes over Skype to help save the oceans.
2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
New MITx course brings a classic MIT undergraduate experience into the age of digital learning.
Probing the surface of pyrite
Common mineral gets first detailed examination of its surface electronic properties, thanks to team of MIT researchers.
With NIH grant, Kay Tye will take on obesity
The MIT professor has earned a 2013 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to further her obesity research.
3 Questions: Scott Kemp on North Korea’s nuclear program
New study suggests that the secretive rogue state may have found a way to circumvent international controls on nuclear materials.
New approach to global health challenges
MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science brings many tools to the quest for new disease treatments and diagnostic devices.
Understanding a new kind of magnetism
Researchers use low-frequency laser pulses to probe the properties of a kind of fluctuating magnetism known as a spin-liquid state.
Teaching computers to see — by learning to see like computers
By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the systems’ failures.
MIT student-innovator prize goes national
The Lemelson-MIT Program has opened its Collegiate Student Prize competition to student innovators nationwide.