How cancer cells fuel their growth
Scientists surprised to find amino acids, not sugar, supply most building blocks for tumor cells.
Whales dine with their own kind
Mapping whale calls, researchers find the predators feed in species-specific hotspots.
Four MIT faculty win Presidential Early Career Awards
Buie, Buonassisi, Tisdale, and Tye honored with the U.S. government's highest award for young scientists and engineers.
Breaking through the bacteria barrier
New microfluidic device may speed up DNA insertion in bacteria, the first step in genetic engineering.
Cleaning water without the grid
MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.
Three from MIT elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Contributions of new members include the design of parallel computing systems, the development of 3-D printing, and the discovery of near-Earth asteroids.
Five with MIT ties tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor and four alumni honored for inventing electronic ink, the spanning tree protocol, and Sketchpad, a human-machine graphical communication system.
Radiation physics today for materials science tomorrow
In the 2016 Del Favero Doctoral Thesis Prize Lecture, Mingda Li PhD '15 describes how radiation can help us understand and design new materials.
MIT students win first round of SpaceX Hyperloop contest
Design tops more than 100 entries at an international high-speed transportation competition inspired by Elon Musk and sponsored by SpaceX.
Learning to solve
Hallmark program “SuperUROP” lets undergrad engineers dive into a year-long research experience.
A new quantum approach to big data
System for handling massive digital datasets could make impossibly complex problems solvable.
Scientists tune polymer material’s transparency
Material may offer cheaper alternative to smart windows.
Larissa Senatus learns about the world by doing
Mechanical engineering major hopes to bring hands-on learning opportunities home to Haiti.