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3-D day

21st century holography to be explored in MIT Museum forum

March 4, 2009

Transportation, transformed

Multidisciplinary research will go way beyond the car

March 4, 2009

Engineered viruses can help fight antibiotic resistance

Viruses attack bacterial defenses

March 2, 2009

Researchers in RLE, led by Charlotte Reed, are using the sense of touch to develop communication aids for the profoundly deaf. The devices convert sound waves to vibrations, which the deaf person holding the device can feel, and help lip-readers identify sounds that can be difficult to distinguish visually.

Good vibrations

Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations

February 26, 2009

Sleek new MIT solar car heads to the races

February 25, 2009

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics graduate student Taylor Matlock, center, principal research scientist Oleg V. Batishchev, left, and Dan Stiurca, junior in electrical engineering and computer science, right, work on adjusting a prototype of a new plasma rocket.

New rocket aims for cheaper nudges in space

Plasma thruster is small, runs on inexpensive gases

February 24, 2009

MIT researchers have developed a way to fold nano- and microscale polymer sheets into simple 3D structures.

Knowing when to fold

Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic devices

February 24, 2009

Senior Angie Chiang, foreground, and junior Taylor Williamson write notes on the chemistry they have learned by making "Death by Chocolate" cookies in Patti Christie's Kitchen Chemistry course, offered in the ESG kitchen.

Cooking up a new approach to chemistry

February 20, 2009

MIT students and residents of Ventanilla, Peru work on the bicilavadora, a novel, inexpensive bike/washing machine.

Spin cycle: a new kind of washer

Machine could produce clean clothes and local jobs

February 19, 2009

"Willing, Wanting, Waiting," by Professor Richard Holton, head of the philosophy section in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, will be published in July by the Oxford University Press.

Big ideas

In unusual coincidence, MIT philosophers release eight books

February 19, 2009

MLK celebration speech by MIT graduate student Joy Johnson

February 18, 2009

'Mind-Body Month' offers self-care, stress relief tips

February 18, 2009

The figures show melanin production by Escherichia coli expressing a heterologous tyrosinase enzyme.Â Figure A is production with supplementation of the substrate (tyrosine) and Figure B is with endogenous production of the substrate (tyrosine) by 5 different engineered strains.

Enlisting microbes to solve global problems

Researchers harness bacteria to produce energy, clean up environment

February 17, 2009

Jacobs to give inaugural School of Engineering lecture

Alumnus, digital wireless pioneer to speak Feb. 19 in 10-250.

February 13, 2009

Professor of Biological Engineering David Schauer and post-doc Megan McBee do work on infectious diarrhea in the developing world.

Chronic infection may add to developing-world deaths

MIT study points to hidden threat stalking many diarrhea patients