What counts as fair?
Neuroscientists find that children’s ability to count is key to distributing resources based on merit.
Hydrogel superglue is 90 percent water
New “water adhesive” is tougher than natural adhesives employed by mussels and barnacles.
MIT’s J-PAL North America launches State and Local Innovation Initiative
New program out of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT aims to help state and local governments find solutions to key public policy issues.
Environment, infrastructure, and people
Faculty discuss interdisciplinary research and educational initiatives in the CEE New Research Alumni Breakfast.
Amplifying — or removing — visual variation
Algorithms could offer new tools for graphics software or reveal structural defects.
How to make better visualizations
Eye-tracking research reveals which types of visuals actually get the message across.
Game for climate adaptation
MIT-led project shows a new method to help communities manage climate risks.
Harvesting more energy from photons
Quantum process increases the number of electrons produced when light strikes a metal-dielectric interface.
System automatically converts 2-D video to 3-D
Exploiting video game software yields broadcast-quality 3-D video of soccer games in real time.
3Q: Thomas Levenson on the hunt for Vulcan, the missing planet
New book details the scientific search for a planet — before Albert Einstein halted the quest.
Tackling cancer research from multiple perspectives
Graduate student Tushar Kamath takes an interdisciplinary approach to cancer research.
Cracking the problem of river growth
MIT researchers find that a similar principle predicts the growth of fractures and rivers.
Engineers design magnetic cell sensors
New protein nanoparticles allow scientists to track cells and interactions within them.
Study predicts bedrock weathering based on topography
Shape of a landscape determines the thickness of Earth’s life-sustaining “critical zone.”
To locate objects, brain relies on memory
Neuroscientists identify brain region that holds objects in memory until they are spotted.