Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Newly discovered phenomenon could affect materials in batteries and water-splitting devices.
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Professor Emeritus Ali Javan, inventor of the first gas laser, dies at 89
Longtime MIT professor was a trailblazer in the fields of laser technology and quantum electronics.
How to power up graphene implants without frying cells
New analysis finds way to safely conduct heat from graphene to biological tissues.
Pianist Simon Smith finds nuance in Stockhausen’s grand vision
Smith kicks off the third season of MIT Sounding, an innovative annual performance series at MIT.
For first time, researchers see individual atoms keep away from each other or bunch up as pairs
Observations of atomic interactions could help pave way to room-temperature superconductors.
MIT named No. 7 university by U.S. News
Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
Judging a book through its cover
New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.
Contemporary and global music come together in MIT’s Sounding Series
The 2016-17 season will showcase everything from symphonic rock, to Japanese koto music, to jazz legend Joe Lovano.
Tiny gold grids yielding secrets
Summer Scholar Justin Cheng explores process in Berggren group for making ordered metal nanostructures that display interesting new properties.
Eleven from MIT named to the 2016 TR35
Nearly one-third of MIT Technology Review’s top innovators under the age of 35 have a connection to MIT.
New method developed for producing some metals
Using electricity rather than heat can reduce both energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
Family and friends recall Drew Esquivel
A talented scholar and athlete, the MIT rising senior “never failed to see the good in others.”
Seeing nature through a molecular engineer’s eye
Alfredo Alexander-Katz probes systems in action, from clotting blood to walking molecules.
Recording analog memories in human cells
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.