Summer interns' lab work underway
Summer Scholars in materials science and engineering are tackling projects ranging from magnetic thin films to catalysts for energy.
Rainer Weiss wins Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
Prestigious Spanish award shared with Caltech's Kip Thorne and Barry Barish and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for work in detecting gravitational waves.
Monitoring and mitigating mercury
Amanda Giang PhD '17 models a pollutant’s pathways and helps decision makers craft more effective mitigation policies.
Peatlands, already dwindling, could face further losses
Climate change could damage the fragile zones, causing major carbon emissions.
New system allows optical “deep learning”
Neural networks could be implemented more quickly using new photonic technology.
LIGO detects merging black holes for third time
Nearly 3 billion light years from Earth, the black holes are the farthest ever detected.
Exploring elusive high-energy particles in an unusual metal
Exotic metal displays behavior that could lead to new infrared detectors.
New method enables real-time monitoring of materials during irradiation
Technique will enable continuous measurement of damage to materials in high-radiation environments.
New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
Formula could help optimize construction vehicles, military tanks, and rovers on Mars.
Bacteria with multicolor vision
Red, green, and blue light can be used to control gene expression in engineered E. coli.
![“The observations are telling us there will be increases [in extreme rainfall] at almost all latitudes, but if you want to know what’s going to happen at the scale of a continent or smaller, it’s a much more difficult question,” Paul O’Gorman says.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201705/mit-extreme-rain.jpg?itok=3RZFd0k3)
Varied increases in extreme rainfall with global warming
Intensification of extreme rainfall varies from region to region, study shows.
MIT students and postdocs advocate for science and engineering funding on Capitol Hill
Members of MIT's Science Policy Initiative meet with members of Congress on Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day.
Summer Scholars embrace engineering challenges
Diverse group seeks MIT laboratory internship experiences in materials science, photonics, energy, and biomedical applications.
New strategy produces stronger polymers
Simple technique cuts down on loops that weaken materials such as plastic and rubber.