Charting a course toward cleaner cars
MIT team recommends strategy for reducing automotive fuel use, emissions
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A manufacturing renaissance for America?
At an MIT forum, experts examine new ways to pursue a good old idea: making things.
Moral judgments can be altered ... by magnets
By disrupting brain activity in a particular region, neuroscientists can sway people’s views of moral situations.
A grand unified theory of AI
A new approach unites two prevailing but often opposed strains in the history of artificial-intelligence research.
Rough calculations
Sanjoy Mahajan’s new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving
Pushing droplets around
MIT researchers find a way to make drops on a surface move in just one direction, with possible applications ranging from biology to electronics
Engineering success for underrepresented faculty
MIT hosts minority faculty development workshop co-sponsored by Georgia Tech and the National Science Foundation
Slackers and superstars of the microbial workplace
MIT chemical engineers find that yeast engineered to manufacture drugs vary widely in their productivity
The sound and the query
Why do questions take the form they do? An MIT linguist explains how the noises we make help to shape the sentences we speak.
No harm, no foul
Study of moral judgment finds that patients with a specific brain defect lack the emotional reaction necessary to find fault with attempted murderers
Explained: Dynamo theory
Recent discoveries raise questions about how small planets can have self-sustaining magnetic fields
A change of mind
One protein appears to control neurons’ ability to react to new experiences, MIT scientists show.
A system that’s worth its salt
New approach to water desalination could lead to small, portable units that could be sent to disaster sites or remote locations.
MIT wins Putnam math competition
Seniors Qingchun Ren and Yufei Zhao finish in top five, helping MIT secure overall victory and end a four-year drought.