Turning windows into powerplants
New technology from MIT could enable a building’s windows to generate power, without blocking the view.
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Pioneering filmmaker Richard Leacock, former MIT professor, dies at age 89
Inventive MIT filmmaker helped create cinéma vérité style with path-breaking documentaries
A 3-D landscape of sound
Award-winning composer Keeril Makan shares his distinctive creative process with MIT students
Parts of brain can switch functions
In people born blind, brain regions that usually process vision can tackle language.
Students get a sneak peek at Maseeh Hall
Open house offers prospective residents the chance to check out MIT's newest undergraduate dormitory.
Springing up FAST
Architectural installations to animate MIT campus as part of MIT150 art, science and technology festival.
Going head to head
Mechanical-engineering competition set the stage for a variety of competitive classes and events at MIT and elsewhere.
Ask a linguist: Q&A with David Pesetsky
Professor, AAAS fellow discusses 'Universal Grammar,' relationship between language and music
1948 mayor to MIT: use flamethrowers to melt snow?
A letter from the MIT archives recalls another super-snowy Boston winter.
Tracing families’ escape from poverty
Economist’s study shows how the poor in developing countries become wealthier.
Understanding the anesthetized brain
Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works.
A new way to evaluate dyslexia
Neuroscientists show that brain scans can predict whether children’s reading ability will improve.
Collective memory
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.