Three MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Gedik, Matusik and Pathak among 126 researchers selected.
Ashoori awarded $1.7 million grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Physics professor studying 'time domain capacitance spectroscopy.'
MIT team promotes prostate cancer prognosis tool
Group is a semifinalist in MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
My connectome, myself
Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung is on a quest to map brain connections that reveal how our memories and personalities take root.
Turning heat into power
A new kind of high-temperature photonic crystal could someday power everything from smartphones to spacecraft.
Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time
Materials scientist explores new possibilities in topics from molecules to rooftop solar panels.
Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away
Discovery could offer clues on the nature of dark matter.
Watching a gas turn superfluid
New work on ultracold gases may also help scientists understand high-temperature superconductors and neutron stars.
Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Some 950 light-years away, team finds smallest exoplanets yet detected.
Electronics takes on a new spin
Researchers at MIT find a way to observe and control the way electrons spin on the surface of exotic new materials.
A novel way to concentrate sun’s heat
MIT researchers find a way to generate power without the usual mirror arrays.
The new NSE strategy
Strengthens core, opens boundaries; seeks better integration of technical and societal issues.
Seeing cancer in three dimensions
Scientists find that the 3-D structure of a cancer cell’s chromosomes plays a big role in which genes get deleted or copied.
