Faculty highlight: Marin Soljacic
Physicist reveals new techniques for controlling light by angle, creating transparent displays and photonic crystal bandgaps.
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Going local in the "Coral Triangle"
MIT researcher Kelly Heber is helping Balinese fishing communities build coral-reef management systems in the most vulnerable marine habitats.
Advancing medicine, layer by layer
Studies by graduate students Stephen Morton and Nisarg Shah show progress toward better cancer treatment and bone replacement.
A new approach to negotiations
Book emphasizes importance of long-term, strategic thinking in negotiations
Why networking doesn't work
New study reveals the strength of the strongest ties in collaborative problem solving.
The cold, hard truth about Arctic policy
Lawrence Susskind talks about the unprecedented policy issues emerging in the Arctic as melting sea ice opens up new opportunities for deep-sea mining and drilling.
Syncing IT with executive vision
George Westerman develops executive-level strategies for maximizing business value through digital technology
Reinventing copper extraction with electricity
Antoine Allanore is developing molten copper sulfide electrolysis to improve purity and drastically reduce pollutants.
How to count methane emissions
Study provides new metric for comparing the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide.
3 Questions: Seth Mnookin on research to encourage vaccination
MIT professor co-authors AAAS report calling for dedicated research on vaccination decisions.
3 Questions: Michael Greenstone on the experimental method in environmental economics
MIT economist makes the case for new quasi-experiments as a way of studying environmental issues.
HuMNet Lab students win big at MIT Big Data Challenge
Urban transportation expertise gave team the edge to earn first- and second-place prizes in different categories.
How electrodes charge and discharge
New MIT analysis probes charge transfer in porous battery electrodes for the first time.
3 Questions with Seth Mnookin
Journalist and best-selling author discusses the challenges and impacts of science writing
Ancient whodunit may be solved: The microbes did it!
Methane-producing microbes may be responsible for the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history.