Bringing a new perspective to infectious disease
Enlisted in the fight against HIV, MIT engineers and scientists contribute new technology, materials and computational studies.
3 Questions: Charles Stewart ranks the voting systems in the 50 states
A new Pew Center project, spurred by MIT research, studies how well states run their elections.
IS&T addresses concerns about MIT’s network
Information Services & Technology sheds light on recent service interruptions, as well as steps taken to mitigate risks to the MIT network.
Companies profit from embracing sustainability
Study by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group indicates more companies are profiting with sustainable business models.
Reducing wasted energy in commercial buildings
Much energy is wasted heating and cooling indoor spaces when no one or almost no one is present. Now, MIT researchers have used their own campus to demonstrate a means of measuring that energy/occupancy mismatch.
Lawmakers focus on MIT fusion research
Three Congressmen visited the Plasma Science and Fusion Center last week.
Purification on the cheap
System developed at MIT cleans ‘produced water’ from natural gas wells, could lead to improved desalination plants for developing countries.
Some cancer mutations slow tumor growth
Surprising result suggests that enhancing these mutations’ impact could offer a new way to treat cancer.
Undergraduate contributes to fusion reactor advancement
Jake Jurewicz, a nuclear science and engineering-physics double major, received a fellowship to develop new simulation and visualization software at the National Fusion Facility in California.
MIT researchers improve quantum-dot performance
New production method could enable everything from more efficient computer displays to enhanced biomedical testing.
Toward practical compressed sensing
Researchers show how the vagaries of real-world circuitry affect the performance of a promising new technique in signal processing and imaging.
A physicist and her neutrinos
MIT senior Christie Chiu has found her focus: the study of tiny particles.
Cardiac development needs more than protein-coding genes
Biologists find that long non-coding RNA molecules are necessary to regulate differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac cells.
Capturing energy from the sun
MIT investigators are inspired by a deep-sea bacterium that is able to harvest tiny amounts of incoming solar energy with exquisite efficiency.
SuperUROP propels undergraduate research to next level
Poster session showcases student advances in key technologies and attracts faculty, venture capitalists and industry sponsors.