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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

New federal chemical rules to impact MIT

January 4, 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

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

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

December 27, 2007

Architecture students, alumnus saluted by magazine

December 27, 2007

For the birds? Hardly

Student sculpture a reminder of world beyond MIT

December 20, 2007

MIT, others ask 'What would E.T. see?'

Team analyzes how alien astronomers would study Earth

December 20, 2007

Mark Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience (right), and GÃ¼l DÃ¶len, a graduate student at Brown University, report the correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice

Research points to potential drug treatment for humans

December 19, 2007

Akiva Yaglom, research fellow, dies at 86

December 18, 2007

Nicolina Akraboff, left, works on an MIT product engineering course project while Roderick La Foy looks on. The two mechanical engineering seniors were part of a team that sewed discarded, flattened plastic bottles together to create insulation for thin walls in Pakistani homes.

Students unveil eco-product prototypes