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Arlin Rogers, principal research scientist in the MIT Division of Comparative Medicine, looks at slides in his office. He and colleagues have figured out why men are more susceptible to liver cancer than women.

Genes key to high liver cancer rates in men

January 15, 2008

MIT Energy Initiative announces first seed grant winners for energy research

More than $1.6 million to fund projects

January 15, 2008

MIT research among Nature magazine's 2007 favorite

January 14, 2008

Waitz to lead Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

January 11, 2008

Brain activity in East Asians and Americans as they make relative and absolute judgments. The arrows point to brain regions involved in attention that are engaged by more demanding tasks. Americans show more activity during relative judgments than absolute judgments, presumably because the former task is less familiar and hence more demanding for them. East Asians show the opposite pattern.

Culture influences brain function, study shows

January 11, 2008

MIT research scientist Luis Velasquez-Garcia, left, and Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, are developing a tiny sensor that can detect hazardous gases, including biochemical warfare agents.

MIT gas sensor is tiny, quick

Energy-efficient device could quickly detect hazardous chemicals

January 10, 2008

Robert Weber, Lincoln Lab physicist, 81

January 8, 2008

Express yourself this January in video, photography

January 7, 2008

Transmission electron micrograph of avian influenza A H5N1 viruses (purple) released from infected human cell (blue).

MIT finds key to avian flu in humans

January 6, 2008

Dan Gabriner, Weston High School math teacher, works with Maria Picardi Kuffner of MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Surveillance Systems group.

Schoolteachers get a 'lift' at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Program spurs students to pursue scientific careers

January 4, 2008

New federal chemical rules to impact MIT

January 4, 2008

Graduate student Adam Kumpf sits on the chair at the desk that he has made part of his clothing for the MIT visual design class Give Me Shelter.

Wearing their art on their sleeves

Grad students' fanciful clothing designs reflect emotions

January 3, 2008

MIT economist sees U.S. weathering $100 oil

January 2, 2008

Architecture students, alumnus saluted by magazine

December 27, 2007

Taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, image shows a close up of the rock dubbed 'El Capitan.' The iron-bearing mineral jarosite, which was found in the rock, led MIT and Harvard researchers to posit that early Mars may have had the greenhouse gas sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere.

MIT, Harvard offer solution to Mars enigma

How Mars could have been warm and wet but limestone-free