Final 2.009 projects make outdoor living better
From rescue beacons to rain shields for bicycles, student innovations offer ways to improve experiences out in the elements.
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Inspiration from a porcupine’s quills
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.
Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominance
MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.
3 Questions: David Kaiser on Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shift
Scholars mark 50th anniversary of 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.'
A new ‘branch’ of math
Researchers find a common angle and tipping point of branching valley networks.
When the first stars blinked on
The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.
GRAIL reveals a battered lunar history
Twin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.
Building a better world
From fuel cells to bamboo, and from Tanzania to Brazil, MIT senior Arfa Aijazi crosses borders and disciplines to make an impact.
How ‘transparent’ is graphene?
MIT researchers find that adding a coating of graphene has little effect on how a surface interacts with liquids — except in extreme cases.
MIT Connect: explore the world of MIT through social media
Want to know what’s up at MIT? Check out MIT Connect, an innovative social media portal recently launched by MIT’s Communication Production Services in collaboration with the News Office.
Study: At most a third of us show a consistent approach to financial risk
Empirically rich new study finds most people alter their risk-management approach depending on the type of financial decision.
Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissues
New design technique could enable personalized medicine, studies of brain wiring.
The robotic equivalent of a Swiss army knife
Reconfigurable robot a step toward something that can become almost anything.
Scientists discover water ice on Mercury
Ice and organic material may have been carried to the planet by passing comets.
