Student-built robots compete on the slopes
Simulated ski run challenges mechanical engineering students to produce a wide array of robots.
Mastering chemical recipes to make new materials
Mircea Dincă creates next-generation synthetic materials for next-generation energy technologies, electronics, and chemical products.
MIT announces new initiative on environment
Multidisciplinary program, to be led by Susan Solomon, will encourage collaborations among researchers in different fields.
Bruno Perreau examines the politics of adoption in France
A lens for views on gender, parenthood, and "Frenchness."
Mixing it up
Relocation brings together materials scientist, theoretical and experimental physicists as Physics of Living Systems group at MIT.
Film, form, and feeling
MIT professor’s new book studies formal properties of movies and the structure of our emotions.
Senior research scientist emeritus Alan Lazarus dies at 82
Career at MIT spanned more than 50 years, focusing on space plasma and the solar wind
Yeast studies suggest alternative cancer approach
Biophysicist Jeff Gore and collaborators urge applying lessons from yeast colony collapse to tumor growth.
Buchwald receives 2014 Pauling Medal Award
Linus Pauling Award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of chemistry
Reinventing copper extraction with electricity
Antoine Allanore is developing molten copper sulfide electrolysis to improve purity and drastically reduce pollutants.