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Gene circuits in live cells can perform complex computations

Technique combines analogue and digital processes in engineered cells.

June 3, 2016

MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members

Term members will each serve five years on MIT’s board of trustees.

June 2, 2016

Making cities smarter

MIT researchers are creating tools that synthesize and collect data so that urban planners can vastly improve the quality of urban life.

June 1, 2016

3 Questions: Stephanie Couch on invention and inspiring young people to pursue STEM education

June 1, 2016

Cody Dennett, PhD candidate in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Scrutinizing radiation’s impact

Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Cody Dennett simulates conditions inside reactors to measure microscopic defects in irradiated materials.

May 31, 2016

A new algorithm for DNA origami starts with a simple, 3-D geometric representation of the final shape of the object, and then decides how it should be assembled from DNA.

Automating DNA origami opens door to many new uses

Like 3-D printing did for larger objects, method makes it easy to build nanoparticles out of DNA.

May 26, 2016

“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

A sample of the mineral perovskite is shown in the foreground, while behind it is an image the researchers used to prove the effects of intense light on a thin film of perovskite. Fluorescence imaging shows that areas that received more light became more purified, as revealed by brighter fluorescence from those regions.

Light can “heal” defects in some solar cells

Defects in some new electronic materials can be removed by making ions move under illumination.

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

Regina Barzilay named Delta Electronics Professor

Leader in human language technologies has been appointed the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

May 23, 2016

$An artist’s embellishment of an image of the “gain medium” used to produce terahertz frequency combs. The different colors indicate that different wavelengths of oscillating terahertz radiation travel different distances through the medium, which has a different refractive index for each of them.$

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