Institute honors Martin Luther King, Jr. at annual breakfast celebration
Speakers ask MIT community members to spread the Institute’s unique gifts
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Record-breaking collisions
Initial results from high-energy proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier.
3 Questions: David Mindell on Obama’s NASA proposal
MIT space researcher predicts that if adopted, Obama’s proposed budget and policy will lead to more joint human-robotic space exploration
First germanium laser
New results from MIT’s Electronic Materials Research Group bring us closer to computers that use light instead of electricity to move data.
Q&A with Simon Johnson
MIT’s outspoken bank critic on the state of the financial industry, the need for reform, and the performance of the White House
Medical entrepreneurship, from the bottom up
MIT students aim to bring affordable health care to India’s masses.
Powering cube satellites
An electric propulsion technology for miniature satellites aims to give them more mobility — and may eventually allow them to take on deep-space missions.
Four win MLK Leadership Awards
Will be honored at a dinner on Wednesday, Feb. 3, the evening before the 36th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Breakfast
CRTs going down the tubes? Hardly
Surprisingly, old-style television sets and computer screens are still in demand — to make new TV sets
Engineering a new way to study hepatitis C
Tissue engineers have successfully infected liver cells in the laboratory, allowing a better way to test new drugs.
Moniz named to Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future
Department of Energy panel will provide recommendations on managing used fuel and nuclear waste
Peering inside an artificial sun
Techniques developed by MIT center provide detailed images from the inside of hellishly hot core of advanced fusion experiments
Nonlinear thinker
With techniques for translating complicated equations into ‘sums of squares,’ Pablo Parrilo helps make sense of previously insoluble problems.