Explained: Bandgap
Understanding how electrons get excited is crucial to creating solar cells and light-emitting diodes
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Fibers that can hear and sing
MIT researchers pass a milestone on the path to sophisticated fibers that interact with their surroundings in new ways.
Explained: Phonons
When trying to control the way heat moves through solids, it is often useful to think of it as a flow of particles.
An Internet 100 times as fast
A new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption.
Thin films show surprising reactivity
MIT findings of high oxygen activity in thin-film materials might someday lead to greatly increased power production from future fuel cells
Enhancing the power of batteries
MIT team finds that using carbon nanotubes in a lithium battery can dramatically improve its energy capacity.
3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
As U.N. negotiations begin this week on a global mercury treaty, an MIT atmospheric scientist explains the challenges ahead.
New book, 'Bright Boys,' chronicles MIT’s pioneering of IT age
Foreword by Professor Emeritus Jay Forrester shares insight on team’s early work
Chisholm receives Agassiz Medal from National Academy of Sciences
MIT professor selected for her pioneering studies of marine organisms
Forging a digital MIT
Letter from Vice President for Finance Israel Ruiz on updates to administrative systems
New project aims for fusion ignition
MIT-led Ignitor reactor could be the world’s first to reach major milestone, perhaps paving the way for eventual power production.
Seeing the forest for the trees
Object recognition systems that break images into ever smaller parts should be much more efficient and may shed light on how the brain works.