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“If we can replace cement, partially or totally, with some other materials that may be readily and amply available in nature, we can meet our objectives for sustainability,” MIT Professor Oral Buyukozturk says.

Finding a new formula for concrete

Researchers look to bones and shells as blueprints for stronger, more durable concrete.

May 25, 2016

Markus Buehler awarded Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for advances in nanotechnology

May 24, 2016

In the top image, a neuronal axon (green) forms many synapses, highlighted in purple. The bottom image shows an axon from a fruit fly lacking the Shank protein. In these flies, not as many synapses form, and some of them (indicated by the white arrows) do not fully mature.

Neuroscientists illuminate role of autism-linked gene

Loss of Shank gene prevents neuronal synapses from properly maturing.

May 24, 2016

“When I came to [MIT’s Campus Preview Weekend], I was just blown away by how everybody was so into whatever they were doing,” Maiko Kitaoka says. “I love that atmosphere.”

Maiko Kitaoka finds elegance in unexpected places

Once an aspiring ballerina, the MIT senior now studies the earliest stages of life.

May 24, 2016

“I am tremendously honored, especially because this is an award conferred by my faculty colleagues at MIT. There is no higher recognition,” Eric Lander said.

Eric Lander wins faculty’s Killian Award

Biologist honored for his scientific leadership, pioneering work in genomics, and inspiring teaching.

May 18, 2016

J-WAFS' 2015 grantees present their ongoing research at the poster session of the J-WAFS Food and Water Conference, held April 27-28 at MIT.

J-WAFS awards $1.3 million in second round of seed grant funding

Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $100,000 per year for up to two years for innovative research on food and water challenges.

May 18, 2016

Left to right: Sabrina Drammis, Margaret Guo, and Nicole Zeinstra

Three student-athletes receive NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships

Drammis, Guo, and Zeinstra among 29 students across all NCAA divisions honored for excellence in academics and winter-season athletics.

May 17, 2016

Graduate student poster winners were: (l-r) Chen Gu, Rong Zhu, and Anthony Soltis, as well as Joseph Azzarelli (not pictured).

Center for Environmental Health Sciences selects 2016 poster winners

Annual poster session showcases recent work on biological effects of exposure to environmental agents.

May 17, 2016

Mutualism, a phenomenon in which different species benefit from their interactions with each other, can help bacteria form drug-resistant communities. Pictured is an artist’s interpretation of mutualism among bacteria.

Teamwork enables bacterial survival

Strains of E. coli resistant to one antibiotic can protect other bacteria growing nearby.

May 16, 2016

MIT scientists say that the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), a period that scientists believe marked the beginning of oxygen’s permanent presence in the atmosphere, started as early as 2.33 billion years ago.

Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere

Beginning 2.33 billion years ago, atmospheric oxygen built up in just 10 million years.

May 13, 2016

Four MIT professors elected to the American Philosophical Society

May 13, 2016

MIT political scientist Kenneth Oye has discovered that collaborating with technologists is a very effective way to inform good policy on the issues he cares about most — from climate change to synthetic biology.

Ken Oye and the art of sociotechnical problem-solving

May 13, 2016

“I realized I wanted to work on systemic changes in education,” Ruth Park says. “Currently education is supposed to be the one leveling ground between people of different economic statuses, and it's not doing that.

Determined to make a change

Senior Ruth Park draws on her background as she strives for educational reform.

May 12, 2016

Top row (l-r): Mark Bathe, Sangbae Kim, and Paola Cappellaro. Second row (l-r): Armando Solar-Lezama, Steven Barrett, Jesse Kroll, and Youssef Marzouk.

The tenured engineers of 2016

Seven appointments are made in the School of Engineering.

May 10, 2016

“This approach overcomes a major hurdle in the human genetics field and addresses an important question surrounding the hidden heritability of many complex traits,” Laurie Boyer says.

New approach to genetic analysis yields markers linked to complex diseases

Study identifies new gene variants that may be targets for treating arrhythmia.

May 10, 2016

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