How the ocean reins in global warming
MIT scientists show how a better understanding of ocean heat uptake can improve long-term climate predictions.
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MIT researchers describe 'energy game changers' at CERAWeek2014
MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong leads panel, among other IHS CERAWeek sessions featuring MIT faculty and researchers.
Upcoming conference puts supply chain management in broad context
Host Yossi Sheffi thinks supply chains change, and are changed by, the world.
Theorists predict new forms of exotic insulating materials
Topological insulators could exist in six new types not seen before.
Erasing traumatic memories
New study identifies drug that could improve treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder.
Getting a move on in math
Marshall Scholar Kirin Sinha is motivating young women to pursue math through dance.
Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don’t
MIT neuroscientists find even high-performing schools don’t influence their students’ abstract reasoning.
Balancing old and new skills
MIT model explains how the brain can learn novel tasks while still remembering what it has already learned.
SMART Driverless golf cart provides a glimpse into a future of autonomous vehicles
Fleet of self-driving cars could solve the “first-and last-mile" problem.
The moon’s face doesn’t tell its whole story
Researchers find that huge craters on the near side of the moon may overstate the intensity of asteroid impacts about 4.1 billion years ago.
Big plans for small spacecraft
Paulo Lozano is designing tiny ion thrusters for the next generation of satellites
Schizophrenia linked to abnormal brain waves
Neuroscientists discover neurological hyperactivity that produces disordered thinking.
Solar-cell manufacturing costs: innovation could level the field
Study shows that factors other than wages dominate trends in photovoltaic costs, raising the prospect of competitive manufacturing anywhere.
An answer to why our galaxy’s black hole is a finicky eater
Researchers find material ejects itself before black hole can devour it.
The science of collaboration
The future of biomedical innovation depends in part on learning from the trend for all players to work together for the common goal, say two MIT researchers.