Civil engineers find savings where the rubber meets the road
Study shows that pavement deflection under vehicle tires makes for a continuous uphill drive that increases fuel consumption.
Daniela Rus named CSAIL director
EECS professor to become new leader of MIT’s largest interdepartmental laboratory.
MIT awarded more than $2 million in NEUP grants, fellowships
Includes $1.65 million in Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Programs grants and $450,000 in graduate student fellowships.
The elusive capacity of networks
Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.
Andrea Campbell: Public opinion and policy viewed through an historical lens
Professor studies taxation, Social Security, health insurance and more.
Exploding the myths of manufacturing
MIT conference explores the complex state of an industry showing signs of revival.
Studying school quality, to fight inequality
New MIT center examines education and its lifelong effects.
Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cells
New method offers automated way to record electrical activity inside neurons in the living brain.
Science Policy Initiative calls on Congress to support investments in R&D
Students traveled to Washington to urge continued funding.
McGovern Institute honors inventor of brain scan technology
David Cohen honored for his invention of magnetoencephalography.
