Concrete Sustainability Hub names Randolph Kirchain as co-director
Engineer studies materials' role in manufacturing and infrastructure.
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A world of wireless power
WiTricity brings wireless power to electrical cars, consumer electronics, and other applications that currently require clumsy cables or chargers.
Beating battery drain
Startup’s power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life, save energy in cell towers.
Keeping hydrogen from cracking metals
MIT postdoctoral associate Mostafa Youssef and graduate student Aravind Krishnamoorthy tackle different aspects of the problem at atomic scale.
Half a day inside the Edgerton Center with Amy Fitzgerald
Longtime educator applies a passion for teaching in her quest to help K-12 students become curious about science and engineering.
Superconducting circuits, simplified
New circuit design could unlock the power of experimental superconducting computer chips.
Surface properties command attention
Professor Bilge Yildiz analyzes surfaces of materials to tackle problems as diverse as enabling fuel cells and preventing pipe corrosion.
Gedik and Jarillo-Herrero named 2014 Moore Experimental Investigators in Quantum Materials
The professors have been awarded $1.8 million each for discovery-driven, high-risk research, with potential for new experimental techniques.
Course 6 creates new undergraduate student lounge
New EECS Undergraduate Student Lounge is one of many initiatives aimed at community building department-wide.
MIT and MGH form strategic partnership to address major challenges in clinical medicine
First set of grants support projects designed to improve diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
Solid nanoparticles can deform like a liquid
Unexpected finding shows tiny particles keep their internal crystal structure while flexing like droplets.
Boxes, books, and bananas: A peek at the MIT Science Fiction Society
Founded in 1949, group now maintains what may be the world’s largest open-shelf collection of science fiction.
Unconventional photoconduction in an atomically thin semiconductor
New mechanism of photoconduction could lead to next-generation excitonic devices.
Job seekers to job generators
RLE’s Translational Fellows Program starts up a new dimension of support for postdocs.