Searching for solar systems like our own
Josh Winn’s hunt for exoplanets may someday reveal habitable, Earth-like worlds.
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Kaiser, Grimson launch Graduate Student Housing Working Group
Effort comes in response to faculty’s 2030/Kendall task force recommendation; Kendall Square zoning hearings continue.
Helping students master data
An undergraduate econometrics class gets students to think critically about their own research.
New rankings acclaim MIT’s graduate programs in engineering, business
MIT leads in seven engineering disciplines and three business fields, says U.S. News & World Report.
Practicing medicine at the nanoscale
New approaches to drug delivery offer hope for new, more targeted treatments.
How to predict the progress of technology
MIT researcher finds Moore’s Law and Wright’s Law best predict how technology improves.
Bringing energy innovations from lab to market
Annual MIT Energy Conference focuses on how innovations can have a real impact on the world’s energy issues.
How the brain loses and regains consciousness
Study reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients.
Knight Fellowship has made its mark on science journalism
MIT-based program has provided research experience for hundreds of reporters.
AAAS annual meeting puts MIT science and technology on display
The 2013 conference, held last week in Boston, featured research presentations, hands-on demonstrations.
Research update: Imaging fish in 3-D
Automated system for high-speed analysis of vertebrate larvae could aid drug development.
Toward practical compressed sensing
Researchers show how the vagaries of real-world circuitry affect the performance of a promising new technique in signal processing and imaging.
Mapping the living cell
New technique pinpoints protein locations, helping scientists figure out their functions.
Big medical data
At the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information.
Rare earth oxides make water-repellent surfaces that last
Ceramic forms of hydrophobic materials could be far more durable than existing coatings or surface treatments.