With just a little electricity, MIT researchers boost common catalytic reactions
Applying a small voltage to a catalyst can increase the rates of reactions used in petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, and many other processes.
Applying a small voltage to a catalyst can increase the rates of reactions used in petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, and many other processes.
Political science and physics major Leela Fredlund wants to ensure fairness and justice prevail in humanity's leap into space.
Scientists quantify a previously overlooked driver of human-related mercury emissions.
Two professors and three additional alumni recognized for “dreaming up solutions to global challenges — advancing health, sustainability, and human connection.”
The results will expand scientists’ understanding of heat flow in superconductors and neutron stars.
Richard Lester describes an emerging new initiative that will back climate efforts at the Institute and find outside partnerships to drive actionable innovation.
The finding provides new insights into the ultrafast control of magnetic materials, with potential to enable next-generation information processing technologies.
MIT delegates share observations and insights from the largest-ever UN climate conference.
For 14 years, Crayton has strengthened programs and created new ones that foster academic success, provide mentoring, prepare students for careers or graduate school, and build community.
Jonathan Weissman and collaborators developed a tool to reconstruct human cell family trees, revealing how blood cell production changes in old age.
A new microscopy technique that enables high-resolution imaging could one day help doctors diagnose and treat brain tumors.
Team-based targeted projects, multi-mentor fellowships ensure that scientists studying social cognition, behavior, and autism integrate multiple perspectives and approaches to pressing questions.
The MIT professor emerita and pioneering molecular biologist is being honored for her advocacy for women in science.
More than 80 students and faculty from a dozen collaborating institutions became immersed at the intersection of computation and life sciences and forged new ties to MIT and each other.
State-of-the-art toolset will bridge academic innovations and industry pathways to scale for semiconductors, microelectronics, and other critical technologies.