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Keeping our hallways safe and clutter free

Facilities will waive fee for removing items through the fall.

July 23, 2012

Zue honored with IEEE speech and audio processing award

July 23, 2012

An artist's representation of the structures produced by this self-assembly method shows a top-down view, with the posts produced by electron-beam lithography shown in blue, and the resulting self-assembled shapes shown in white.

Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles

New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.

July 19, 2012

This illustration shows how a molten fiber, because of a phenomenon known as Rayleigh instability, naturally breaks up into spherical droplets. Researchers from MIT and UCF have figured out how to use this natural tendency as a way to make large quantities of perfectly uniform particles, which can have quite complex structures.

Dripping faucets inspire new way of creating structured particles

Researchers find new method for making spherical particles, from nanoscale to pinhead-sized — including complex beach-ball-like shapes.

July 18, 2012

A series of screenshots from 6.002x, the first course offered through <i>MITx</i>.

Lessons learned from MITx’s prototype course

As the team behind MIT’s ambitious online learning program gears up to introduce new courses in the fall, it takes stock of its initial experiences.

July 16, 2012

A new glasses-free 3-D video system uses three layered LCD panels displaying bizarre patterns (top three images) that collectively produce a coherent, high-resolution, multiperspective 3-D image. The bottom image illustrates, roughly, the composite image that would reach one eye at one viewing angle.

Glasses-free 3-D TV looks nearer

A new method for producing multiple-perspective 3-D images could prove more practical in the short term than holography.

July 12, 2012

OB/GYN nurse coordinator Nicole Napier M.S.M., B.S.N., R.N. came up with the referral-tracking system that became the model for MIT Medical’s new central referral office.

Referral system at MIT Medical 'closes loop' in follow-up care

An idea by an MIT Medical nurse coordinator led to a departmental referral system that improves communication among clinicians, outside specialists, and patients.

July 10, 2012

Green sulfur bacteria, whose exceptional light-harvesting capabilities inspired the artificial system analyzed by postdoc Dörthe Eisele and her co-workers, dominate this hot spring at Yellowstone National Park and give it its striking green color.

Researchers explain how dye-based nanotubes can help harvest light’s energy

Tiny cylinders help reveal how natural-light-harvesting antennae collect light with exceptional efficiency.

July 6, 2012

A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what is expected to be seen from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes.

CERN announces observation of new particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

Dozens of MIT researchers contribute to breakthrough in particle physics.

July 4, 2012

Illustration of a sheet of graphene with a bunch of other molecules floating on either side

A new approach to water desalination

Graphene sheets with precisely controlled pores have potential to purify water more efficiently than existing methods.

July 2, 2012

A section of the Whirlwind computer is shown here on display in the MIT Museum during last year's MIT150 celebration.

IEEE honors MIT milestones in computing and navigation

World’s first real-time digital computer and electronic navigation system are commemorated in Boston.

June 28, 2012

Marisa Gerla, left, and Mary Anito, right, visiting a local poultry enterprise in Mbarara, Uganda with Sarah Nabachwa, second from left, and Jacinta Nshemereirwe, third from left, of the Sustainable Household Income Project.

Student teams tackle Third World health care issues

LGO students add operations expertise to ghdLab projects

June 28, 2012

Scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) of the silicon microstructured surfaces for the boiling experiments. The dimensions of the micropillars are well-defined to allow systematic studies of surface roughness effects on critical heat flux (CHF).

Better surfaces could help dissipate heat

Heat transfer in everything from computer chips to powerplants could be improved through new analysis of surface textures.

June 26, 2012

Disordered materials, such as this slice of amorphous silicon (a material often used to make solar cells), have been very difficult to model mathematically. New mathematical methods developed at MIT should help with such modeling.

New technique allows simulation of noncrystalline materials

Multidisciplinary team develops mathematical approach that could help in simulating materials for solar cells and LEDs.

June 22, 2012

An atomic-force microscope image of a layer of single-walled carbon nanotubes deposited on a silicon surface, as the first step in manufacturing the new type of solar cell developed by an MIT team. Individual nanotubes can be seen in the image.

All-carbon solar cell harnesses infrared light

New type of photovoltaic device harnesses heat radiation that most solar cells ignore.

June 21, 2012

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