Unraveling black hole spin
Retrograde spin of supermassive black holes may create jets that control galaxy evolution
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Self-powered sensors
Harvesting electricity from small temperature differences could enable a new generation of electronic devices that don’t need batteries
3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles
With the vaunted Japanese automaker recalling millions of cars, the MIT senior lecturer explains what went wrong
A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
Though widely seen as a failure, December’s climate conference may actually have set the world on the right path, panelists suggest
The power of ‘random’
A ‘seemingly loopy’ technique that MIT researchers helped develop could dramatically improve the efficiency of communications networks.
Nobel laureate Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us
In Stata Center lecture, the Nobel Prize-winning former MIT professor warns that America is replaying its past economic policy mistakes.
Carl Kaysen, MIT professor emeritus and national security expert, dies at age 89
As an adviser under President Kennedy, he helped negotiate a key nuclear test ban treaty.
MIT launches iPhone application
App features news, map, people directory, access to Stellar, and more
Democracy put to the test
MIT field experiment asks: What happens when people gain the ability to govern themselves?
Institute honors Martin Luther King, Jr. at annual breakfast celebration
Speakers ask MIT community members to spread the Institute’s unique gifts
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