The moon’s face doesn’t tell its whole story
Researchers find that huge craters on the near side of the moon may overstate the intensity of asteroid impacts about 4.1 billion years ago.
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Solving chromosomes’ structure
Scientists find that loops of DNA are key to tightly packing genetic material for cell division.
Cocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
Mechanisms behind water bugs and lilies applied to culinary devices.
Turning bacteria into chemical factories
Kristala Jones Prather engineers cells to produce useful compounds such as drugs and biofuels.
Dower granted major ‘lifetime achievement’ award in history
MIT professor recognized as ‘pre-eminent scholar’ in East Asian history.
‘Hybrid’ nuclear plants could make a dent in carbon emissions
Combining nuclear with artificial geothermal, shale oil, or hydrogen production could help slow climate change, study shows.
Emeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
System he hatched in the 1970s for curbing carbon emissions is finally getting some traction.
How to program unreliable chips
A new language lets coders reason about the trade-off between fidelity of execution and power or time savings in the computers of the future.
New implantable sensor paves way to long-term monitoring
Carbon nanotubes that detect nitric oxide can be implanted under the skin for more than a year.
Doctor, doctor: Why the job market for married couples in medicine works well
New study in the growing ‘market design’ field of economics explains how a job-market algorithm helps land couples in the same locations.
A new way to monitor induced comas
Automated system could offer better control of patients’ brain states.
Resistance is futile
Chemists develop new way to kill cancer cells resistant to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin.
Researchers discover that an exoplanet is Earth-like in mass and size
While too hot to support life, Kepler 78b is roughly the size of the Earth.
Military medicine
Senior Laura Lu’s years at MIT have included cancer research, ROTC leadership, and prosthesis trials — and she aims to put her talents to use one day as a Navy surgeon.
Powering better online document viewing
Fast-growing startup Crocodoc is developing technology that converts documents into HTML for easy viewing and embedding.