Can entrenched energy systems undergo rapid changes?
MIT Energy Conference explores recent dramatic developments in the energy landscape, and outlines the need for more.
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Silvija Gradečak seeks to better the world through new materials
Looking for better materials for solar cells, LEDs, and other technology, one molecule at a time.
Turning bacteria into chemical factories
Kristala Jones Prather engineers cells to produce useful compounds such as drugs and biofuels.
3 Questions: Scott Kemp on North Korea’s nuclear program
New study suggests that the secretive rogue state may have found a way to circumvent international controls on nuclear materials.
Accelerating startups, the MIT way
MIT’s Global Founders Skills Accelerator — which focuses on ‘disciplined entrepreneurship’ — helps student teams build innovation-based startups.
New materials improve oxygen catalysis
Highly active catalysts could be key to improved energy storage in fuel cells and advanced batteries.
Accounting for everyone
Rodrigo Verdi teaches accounting, the ‘language of business’ — and studies the links between accounting and market movements.
Linguistic puzzler
Graduate student Rafael Nonato travels to the fringes of the Amazon rainforest to explore the Brazilian native language of the Kĩsêdjê.
Reinventing invention
Designer Chuck Hoberman partners with CSAIL to create transformable mechanisms
Cells as living calculators
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots.
Machine shop builds lifelong skills
In its 15th year, the Edgerton Student Shop continues to entice students to build all manner of things
6.003z signals a new open education ecosystem
MITx student used OCW to create his own massive open online course.
Stephanie Frampton awarded the Rome Prize
Will research history and cultural significance of the alphabetic writing of ancient Rome.