Hidden in plain sight
A new approach to invisibility cloaking gets much closer to the science-fiction version, using simple and inexpensive materials.
Search Stories
How a simple phone call could provide Haitians with work
Media Lab students deploy trial of free phone service in Port-Au-Prince to match Haiti's unemployed with reconstruction jobs.
Today at Maseeh Hall: Coffee with the construction crew
Institute Chaplain Robert Randolph invites construction workers to breakfast and coffee
3-D TV? How about holographic TV?
Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
Electrifying transportation: Devil is in the details
MIT symposium finds electric vehicle technology capabilities are way ahead of policy and infrastructure needs.
Research update: How to tame hammering droplets
MIT research uncovers new process relating to the way drops of water spread after striking a surface.
Putting up a struggle against cancer
Blood-vessel cells can combat aggressive tumors, helping to prevent them from spreading through the body, new study finds.
Prodigy of probability
Norbert Wiener gained fame as the father of cybernetics, but his earlier work on statistical descriptions of complex systems may prove more important.
What's happening with Maseeh Hall
Check out regular updates on the progress to open Maseeh Hall for fall 2011.
The lonely crowd
In a new book, Sherry Turkle documents the sometimes-detrimental effects of technology on our families and social lives.
The price is right
How a new online tool can help measure inflation as accurately as — and more quickly than — traditional methods.
How liquids behave
Researchers identify a fundamental property of how water and other liquids move at different temperatures.
And then there was light
Astronomers probe ancient radio waves for clues about the universe’s first light.
Canned, good
More than 100 years ago, 2 pioneering scientists figured out how to keep canned food safe.
Selection by size and substance
Technique could produce filters that select molecules according to their chemical properties and dimensions.