Students advancing a future with carbon-free fusion PhD candidates Adam Kuang and Alex Creely are thriving after their first year at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center. June 17, 2015 Read full story →
Seeking rare cells Christopher Love uses microscale technology to isolate rare cells, yielding insight into human disease. June 17, 2015 Read full story →
Education is focus of Lemann gift to MIT New partnership will support high-impact initiatives aimed at improving public education in Brazil. June 16, 2015 Read full story →
Centimeter-long origami robot Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight. June 12, 2015 Read full story →
MIT team creates ultracold molecules At near absolute zero, molecules may start to exhibit exotic states of matter. June 10, 2015 Read full story →
3 Questions: Economies as computers, products as information New book argues that economic development is a special case of the growth of information. June 9, 2015 Read full story →
A new tool measures the distance between phonon collisions Tabletop setup provides more nuanced picture of heat production in microelectronics. June 1, 2015 Read full story →
Bringing microgrids to rural villages MIT team, working with villagers in India, designs peer-to-peer system to enable local power sharing. June 1, 2015 Read full story →
Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT. May 29, 2015 Read full story →
Helping robots put it all together New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly. May 27, 2015 Read full story →
Measuring hot electrons MIT graduate student Qiong Ma is uncovering electrical properties of graphene-based devices using laser-light stimulation. May 26, 2015 Read full story →
Mark R. Epstein ’63 endows directorship of MIT Museum Museum's first endowed position will be held by John Durant, its incumbent director. May 26, 2015 Read full story →
How to make continuous rolls of graphene New manufacturing process could take exotic material out of the lab and into commercial products. May 21, 2015 Read full story →
Voltage: A new community of electrical engineers MIT students organize a new group aimed at building a network of peers in electrical engineering. May 20, 2015 Read full story →