3 Questions: Kenneth Oye on regulating drugs
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Designing better medical implants
Optimal size and shape allow implantable devices to last longer in the body.
Translating thought to print
Researchers explore mechanics of silk to design materials with high strength and low density.
Researchers identify new target for anti-malaria drugs
Manipulating the permeability of a type of vacuole could help defeat malarial parasites.
Faster, smaller, more informative
Device can measure the distribution of tiny particles as they flow through a microfluidic channel.
Sustainability of the built environment
Professor Oral Buyukozturk has catalyzed multidisciplinary ventures to advance sustainable designs for infrastructure in Kuwait and elsewhere.
Eight MIT students accept 2015 Fulbright grants
Grantees will spend the 2015-2016 academic year abroad, conducting research or academic studies.
Symposium honors professor of chemistry Stephen Lippard
Event honors Stephen Lippard, recipient of the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, for his work on the role of metal atoms in biology and medicine.
Start6 students expand innovation horizons while making connections in Silicon Valley
San Francisco and Silicon Valley startups, MIT alumni, and venture capitalists complement and enhance the Start6 learning experience.
Donca Steriade: Searching for the building blocks of language
The most comprehensive survey of rhyme ever made reveals a new possibility for one of the essential units of language.
Inspiring a new generation of women in nuclear science and engineering
2015 Rising Stars in Nuclear Science and Engineering Symposium highlights outstanding new work and celebrates women in the field.
How some beetles produce a scalding defensive spray
New analysis shows how bombardier beetles produce an explosive defensive chemical jet.