Undergrads bring energy education to Ghana
Ghanaian high school students share alternative energy ideas with rural village.
Test kitchen, MIT-style
Students in this year’s product-engineering class serve up food-related innovations.
Understanding shape-shifting polymers
MIT analysis should enable easier design for biomedical uses of plastic materials that have a shape memory.
Predicting ocean motions and underwater sounds
MIT research could help ocean science, naval operations and the control and location of underwater vehicles.
The surprising physics of cats’ drinking
A new study reveals that even the way cats lap up liquid displays the perfect balance for which they’re known.
Four MIT students win 2010 MIT-CIMIT Fellowships
Receive multi-year support to work on traditionally underfunded areas in health care.
Evelyn Wang receives Air Force Young Investigator Award
43 researchers share $16.5 million in grants.
Gail Kendall’s gift transforms historic lab
The Rohsenow Kendall Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory completes a total renovation
In the World: Drinking water, from sunshine
MIT team designs solar-powered portable desalination system to use in disaster zones and remote regions.
MIT cyclists best overall at 2010 Collegiate National Track Championships
For third consecutive year, team wins Division II Omnium.
Roger Kamm elected to the Institute of Medicine
One of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine
CEE researchers collaborate with Nobel Prize winner
Team explains tearing mechanism of the triangular-shaped ribbons of graphene
Galileo revisited: How ribbons roll
In a twist on a classic experiment, MIT researchers discover how flexible cylinders behave when rolling down a slope.
Supercomputing on a cell phone
For complex problems whose form can be anticipated but whose particulars can’t, new software can offer approximate solutions in seconds.
James Keck, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 86
Worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos