Book celebrates MIT urban planning projects that solve real-world problems
"Planning Practice" documents a decade of workshops and studios in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form.
Method for earlier detection of leukemia wins $300,000 grant
Team takes home grand prize from Koch Institute’s unique research-grant pitch competition.
Using new models and big data to better understand financial risk
Bringing together engineers, data theorists, mathematicians, economists, biologists, and policy experts, IDSS is looking at financial risk through a multidisciplinary lens.
Study finds unexpected long-range particle interactions
Spinning cells could attract each other across surprisingly long distances.
Research sheds light on delicate forest biodiversity
Quantitative study of Poland's Bialowieza Forest highlights processes shaping species coexistence and potential impacts of deforestation.
New study shows rich, poor have huge mortality gap in U.S.
In unprecedented detail, lifespan gap shown to be large and growing rapidly.
Innovative agreement with publisher Springer affirms MIT’s commitment to openly accessible scholarship
MIT-authored articles will automatically be deposited into DSpace@MIT.
Ideas in orbit
From MIT to the moon, and on campus, senior Raichelle Aniceto builds new connections.
Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems
Researchers in IDSS are learning how ideas evolve over networks, quantifying the influence of individuals in networks, and making better predictions.
Taking on melanoma, one cell at a time
In step toward personalized medicine, researchers are using single-cell analysis to unravel cancer’s secrets.
Stabilizing quantum bits
Feedback technique used on diamond “qubits” could make quantum computing more practical.
Engineers develop a pill for long-term drug release
New tablet attaches to the lining of the GI tract, resists being pulled away.
First-ever 3-D printed robots made of both solids and liquids
System from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab 3-D prints hydraulically-powered robot bodies, with no assembly required.