New method developed for producing some metals
Using electricity rather than heat can reduce both energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
Programmable network routers
New design should enable much more flexible traffic management, without sacrificing speed.
Lifelong learning a hallmark of MIT pursuits
Professor Philip Gschwend discusses the importance of comprehensive systems approaches to curing environmental ills.
Study reveals new physics of how fluids flow in porous media
Key flow mechanisms, crucial to carbon sequestration and fuel-cell operation, have been visualized.
Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
Bubble-wrapped structure requires no mirrors or lenses to focus the sun’s heat.
Seeing nature through a molecular engineer’s eye
Alfredo Alexander-Katz probes systems in action, from clotting blood to walking molecules.
Recording analog memories in human cells
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.
New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester
Areas of expertise include robotics, writing, physics, jewelry-making, and breakfast cereal.
Summer in the Sandbox
Students in a new innovation program are using the summer, their new connections, and their funding to move their ideas forward.
Doubling battery power of consumer electronics
New lithium metal batteries could make smartphones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long.
Duane Boning named head of Leaders for Global Operations program
Boning succeeds David Simchi-Levi as engineering faculty director of master’s program.
New technique may help detect Martian life
A novel interpretation of Raman spectra will help the 2020 Mars rover select rocks to study for signs of life.
Booting up spin-based device studies
Summer Scholar Grant Smith works to establish parameters for making ferromagnetic thin films in the Luqiao Liu lab.
Can today’s EVs make a dent in climate change?
Electric vehicles can meet drivers’ needs enough to replace nearly 90 percent of vehicles now on the road.
J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
Four new projects and one renewal receive $150,000 in funding for 2016-2017.