Mechanical engineering

$Atomistic simulation provides unparalleled insight into fracture processes. Under the weight of an applied load, a crack in a silicon crystal (above, left) propagates until the crystal is cleaved.$

Think small! Think quickly! Atomistic model helps students visualize nanoscale problems

Software designed for genetics shows how materials behave under extreme loading

April 2, 2007

MIT visualization of the chaotic tangle underlying turbulence. Area in black box represents a blown-up portion of the fluid showing the self-similarity of the tangle.

MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence

March 28, 2007

An experimental in vitro demonstration of the "fluidization" of a healthy human red blood cell through a microfliuidic channel at room temperature. The series of images shows how the shape of a red blood cell changes as it is squeezed through a 4 micron by 4 micron channel.

MIT shows how blood cells change shape

Work could aid understanding of malaria, other blood disorders

March 12, 2007

New center to explore quantum information theory

March 9, 2007

MIT graduate student Nathan Ball, who invented a device for rapidly scaling large heights, is this year's winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.

Lemelson winner designs for public safety

February 14, 2007

Graduate student Jianping Fu (left), Professor Jongyoon Han and postdoc Reto Schoch have created a microchip system that allows speedy separation and sorting of biomolecules.

MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip

February 5, 2007

MIT graduate student Shawna Liff works with a nanocomposite material she helped develop. The material, composed of nanoparticles embedded in a rubbery polymer, mimics the strength and stretchiness qualities of spider silk.

Nanocomposite research yields strong and stretchy fibers

Lycra-like materials were inspired by spider silk

January 18, 2007

MIT ethanol analysis confirms benefits of biofuels

January 8, 2007

Ticket to ride

December 20, 2006

MIT Museum curator of science and technology Deborah Douglas examines a simple microscope from the exhibit, 'Singular Beauty,' with the owner of the collection, Raymond V. Giordano.

Museum displays 'Singular Beauty' of microscopes

Tiny instruments, invented in 1600s, are still used in research

December 13, 2006

Members of the MIT Hobby Shop work on a storage unit for the Project Hope shelter in Boston. From left to right are junior Ilan Moyer, Hobby Shop Director Kenneth Stone, junior Folkers Rojas, sophomore Alexis Dale and junior Dayan Paez.

Hobby Shop project aids makeover of Project Hope shelter

December 11, 2006

Wanted: Biologists who can speak 'math,' engineers fluent in genetics

November 22, 2006

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

Soap Box speakers urge energy conservation

November 13, 2006

Robots headed for deepwater oil, gas operations

November 8, 2006

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