In Profile: Leonard Guarente
Biology professor discovered a gene at the center of aging. Now that research is yielding therapies that target the diseases of old age.
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Two chips in one
MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.
After 52 years, Tech Talk ceases publication
Today, the News Office launches a new web site designed to serve the MIT community — and to tell the Institute's story to the wider world.
Fish and chips
New robots mimic fish's swimming and could explore areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't currently go.
Letter to the community on Institute-wide planning
Task Force's preliminary report released to the community
Echoes of the birth of the universe
Results of cosmic analysis set new limits on gravitational waves that could have come from the Big Bang, and begin to constrain current theories about universe formation
A hard rain's gonna fall
Climate change will yield more extreme rainfall, according to a new analysis.
Researchers make carbon nanotubes without metal catalyst
Oxides, as well as metals, seem to be able to sprout carbon nanotubes, study finds
Tumor mutations can predict chemo success
Genetic profiling of tumors could have 'immediate impact' on treating cancer, study shows
Task Force group relishes 'shared sense of experiment'
Student Life Working Group finds reasons for optimism amid economic challenges