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$Gratings used to manipulate X-rays for future space telescopes and other applications,Â like tiny miniaturized venetian blinds,Â were created using this interference lithography patterning tool, called the nanoruler, developed at MIT's Space Nanotechnology Laboratory. The colorful, diffracting wafer at center has a diameter of 12 inches.$

MIT team develops better X-ray nanomirrors

Nanotechnology will enhance future telescopes

June 9, 2008

Professor Martin Schmidt

Schmidt to succeed Gibson as associate provost

June 6, 2008

MIT researchers are designing sensors that use carbon nanotubes, shown here in middle and at top, to detect hazardous gases.

Super-sensitive and small: New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases

June 5, 2008

New members talk during the induction ceremony.

Quarter Century Club awards

June 4, 2008

NASA selects MIT-led team to develop planet-searching satellite

June 3, 2008

Professor Linda Griffith admires the way that Course 20 graduating seniors Lissa Riley, Mike Yee, and and Andrzej Wojcieszynski meld their knowledge of thermodynamics and laboratory savvy to derive festive experiments in celebration of the first graduating class of biological engineers.

Wave of the future: MIT to graduate first class of biological engineering majors

June 2, 2008

The mesh of nanowires behind MIT's new material for absorbing oil and other organic pollutants, here shown at increasing magnifications (left to right).

MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills

Nanowire mesh can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil

May 30, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Embedded Electronics

May 21, 2008

The new, thin material developed by MIT engineers for use in methanol fuel cells.

MIT creates new material for fuel cells

Increases power output by more than 50 percent

May 16, 2008

David Schmittlein

Interview with the dean: David Schmittlein

May 12, 2008

Turn trash into treasure at May 9 FreeMeet

May 8, 2008

Get your MIT news when you want it, how you want it

May 7, 2008

Study debunks myth of job testing as race barrier

Screening can raise productivity without compromising equal opportunity

May 7, 2008

In Sigma Xi lecture, Barsoum to focus on pyramids

May 7, 2008

Adjunct Professor of the Humanities in the Program in Writing Alan Lightman sits in the mosque built by his and his wife's Harpswell Foundation with villagers, Muslim Chams (of the San Cham sect).

A dream come true: Lightman lights up future for Cambodians

May 7, 2008