'You can’t play it safe and win’
Speaker Ray Stata urges graduates to find solutions to humanity’s greatest problems — and to risk failure along the way — at MIT Commencement.
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Operating in orbit
Astronaut and alumnus Bobby Satcher recounts his experience as the first orthopedic surgeon in space
Sally Haslanger receives two major awards in philosophy
Carus Lecturer for 2011 and Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2010
More is less
Complex computer models can involve thousands of variables. But paradoxically, adding more variables can sometimes make them easier to work with.
Explained: Knightian uncertainty
The economic crisis has revived an old philosophical idea about risk and uncertainty. But what is it, exactly?
3 Questions: John Marshall on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
An MIT oceanographer discusses why ‘we have never had a spill like this’ — and what that means for cleanup efforts.
Giving proteins a new glow
MIT chemists have designed a way to fluorescently label proteins that could shed light on protein functions never before seen.
Obama intends to nominate Suresh as next NSF director
The MIT engineering dean would lead the independent federal agency that supports science and engineering research.
LINC 2010 engages and inspires
Conference focuses on the present and future of technology-enabled learning worldwide
‘Tattoo’ may help diabetics track their blood sugar
Chemical engineers are working on carbon nanotubes that could be injected under the skin to reveal blood glucose levels.
‘Efficiency Forward'
Ambitious collaboration between MIT and NSTAR aims to cut campus electricity use by 15 percent over 3 years.