A new molecular design approach
New programming tool could help engineers build biologically inspired materials.
Advice to students in planetary science: “Start young!”
MIT astronomer Richard Binzel describes lengthy preparation for this year’s successful flyby of Pluto.
Inside climate politics
Study: Pattern of winners and losers explains U.S. policy on fuel subsidies.
Moon’s crust as fractured as can be
Study finds barrage of small asteroids shattered moon’s upper crust.
First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores.
How to spawn an “exceptional ring”
Researchers create exotic states that could lead to new kinds of sensors and optical devices.
MIT joins $171M public-private consortium on manufacturing flexible electronics
Government, industry, and academia partner to bring new generation of electronics to commercial scale.
Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
Fertilize the ocean, cool the planet?
MIT researchers find unintended consequences of an idea to stimulate ocean phytoplankton growth in order to geoengineer a cooler atmosphere.
MISTI Open House
On September 10, students can learn about international internship, teaching, and research opportunities with leading companies and labs around the world.
Bubble, bubble … boiling on the double
New analysis of textured surfaces could lead to more efficient, and less dangerous, power plants.
Quantifying the impacts of large-scale irrigation on rainfall
A new study describes how irrigation development modifies local and regional climate.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.