3 Questions: AIDS researchers on new vaccine results
Partial success of a new AIDS vaccine offers clues to help develop a stronger vaccine, say MIT’s Arup Chakraborty and MGH’s Bruce Walker.
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Lab-grade economics
Can economists conduct studies with solid scientific foundations? Professor Joshua Angrist explains how to carry out 'natural experiments' with numbers.
Whose Internet is it, anyway?
One of the Internet's chief architects looks at the FCC's proposed Net neutrality rules.
3 Questions: Phillip Sharp calls for 'New Biology' push
The U.S. needs an ambitious biology research initiative to tackle broad challenges involving food, energy, the environment and health, says Nobel laureate.
In the World: A better way to beat around the bush
International teams in Ghana tackle local needs of village farmers for better methods and devices to harvest their crops
NIH picks Samson, Griffith and Bhatia for innovation grants
Pioneer, T-R01 awards aimed to spur 'out of the box' research
Harnessing nanopatterns
New findings show that tiny textures on a surface can produce big differences in how some materials, and even living cells, behave
Stimulating sight
Led by electrical engineering professor John Wyatt, team develops retinal implant that could help restore useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people
Used frying oil to power MIT shuttles
Student biodiesel group cooks up its first batches of fuel made from recycled oil from campus dining facilities
In Profile: Scott Manalis
His technology to weigh single cells led to an unexpected research focus: figuring out how cancerous cells escape normal growth controls.
Sharing the air
Unused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left
'Genius' grant for MIT economist
Esther Duflo receives MacArthur Fellowship for transformative work on economic development; has brought field experiments to studies of poverty around the world