Topic
Research
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David White, founding director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, dies at 89
January 18, 2012 -
The quantifier
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images.
January 12, 2012 -
How research goes viral
What makes a new finding in biology circulate widely? An MIT economist knows: Make the original research materials accessible.
January 10, 2012 -
Making her move
MIT senior overcame disabilities to study materials science, hoping to pave the way for other aspiring engineers.
January 9, 2012 -
Boyden named inaugural recipient of IET’s Harvey Engineering Research Prize
Honored for his pioneering research contributions to the field of optogenetics, in which neurons are genetically modified to respond to light.
January 6, 2012 -
From Earth to the Moon
MIT-led GRAIL mission enters lunar obit
January 6, 2012 -
Knittel named first energy faculty chair at MIT
January 5, 2012 -
3-D cameras for cellphones
Clever math could enable a high-quality 3-D camera so simple, cheap and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into handheld devices.
January 5, 2012 -
A shale gas revolution?
MIT report shows prosperous shale gas market could hurt future R&D, if we let it.
January 3, 2012 -
How to kick-start new energy technologies
Three-year study produces proposals for boosting energy innovation to meet growing demand, curb global warming.
December 22, 2011 -
Sep Kamvar joins the MIT Media Lab
December 21, 2011 -
Proposal for MIT Global Environment Initiative seeks public comment
Initiative expected to focus on six broad environmental research themes.
December 21, 2011 -
MISTI 2.0 selects 2011-2012 grantees
December 21, 2011 -
Traditional social networks fueled Twitter’s spread
Site’s U.S. growth relied primarily on media attention, geographic proximity of users.
December 21, 2011 -
Need a new material? New tool can help
Exhaustive reference system and interactive toolkit could revolutionize materials research, potentially enabling new types of manufacturing.
December 20, 2011 -
Data mining without prejudice
A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large datasets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.
December 16, 2011 -
Up, down and all around
One MIT senior traveled the planet’s most remote areas before landing at the Institute, where he now works on engineering better thermoelectric devices.
December 15, 2011 -
$26.5 million Simons gift to catalyze autism research at MIT
Creates the Simons Center for the Social Brain
December 13, 2011 -
Energy Education Task Force marks five-year surge in energy focused offerings
Nearly $9 million raised for curriculum development so far.
December 13, 2011 -
Trillion-frame-per-second video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
December 13, 2011