Medical entrepreneurship, from the bottom up
MIT students aim to bring affordable health care to India’s masses.
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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.
Mapping the brain
MIT scientists are making computers smart enough to see the connections between the brain's neurons
3 Questions: Bradford Hager on Haiti’s coming quakes
The MIT geophysicist expects more earthquakes could hit the region relatively soon.
Iron-plated snail could inspire new armor
Analysis of unique deep-sea mollusk offers insights into design of armor for soldiers and vehicles.
Power from down under
Earth’s own heat could provide vast amounts of clean electricity, and current MIT research could help make it feasible