Joern Callies and Jill McDermott win Carl-Gustaf Rossby Awards for PhD theses
Awards to recent alumni honor the memory of Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a pioneer in earth and atmospheric sciences.
![“…[I]f a fluorescence microscope’s resolution is set at 2 micrometers, our technique can have 300 nanometer resolution — about a sixfold improvement over regular microscopes,” says MIT graduate student Frederick Sangyeon Cho. “The idea is very simple but very powerful and can be useful in many different imaging applications.”](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201611/MIT-Laser-Particles.jpg?itok=6w5kR_BC)
Laser particles could provide sharper images of tissues
New imaging technique stimulates particles to emit laser light, could create higher-resolution images.
Decoding the medical cost mystery
Providers and patients drive health care spending in roughly equal amounts, study shows.
3Q: William Bonvillian on connecting Cambridge and Capitol Hill
Through its Washington Office, MIT continues its long history of engagement on national science and technology policy.
Scientists set traps for atoms with single-particle precision
Technique may enable large-scale atom arrays for quantum computing.
Real estate innovation by the numbers
Real Estate Innovation Lab to promote the future of urban development by showing investors how it can work.
A new twist on airplane wing design
“Morphing” wing could enable more efficient plane manufacturing and flight.
Battery challenges: cost and performance
Industry speakers and MIT faculty offer solutions to problems ranging from small portable devices to large fixed installations.
Engineers design a new weapon against bacteria
Antimicrobial peptides can kill strains resistant to existing antibiotics.
Predicting cancer cells’ response to chemotherapy
Measuring DNA repair capability can reveal tumors’ sensitivity to drugs.
Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives
After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.
Making computers explain themselves
New training technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions.
Retracing the origins of a massive, multi-ring crater
Scientists reconstruct first hours after a giant impact created one of the largest craters on the moon.