School of Science

Edward Doddridge, a postdoc in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, co-developed a model to investigate the mechanism behind phytoplankton growth within subtropical gyres.

How phytoplankton survive in ocean gyres with low nutrient supplies

Model of nutrient recycling may explain longstanding mystery.

September 14, 2018

McGovern Institute investigator and brain and cognitive sciences Assistant Professor Mark Harnett has been named a 2018 Vallee Scholar.

Mark Harnett named Vallee Foundation Scholar

MIT neuroscientist is among five people selected to receive the early career award.

September 14, 2018

MIT's 2018 HHMI Hanna Gray fellows are (l-r) Jarrett Smith, Quinton Smith, and Matheus Victor.

New perspectives at the bench

Three MIT postdocs earn competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships that support diversity in the sciences.

September 12, 2018

Timothy Grove, the Robert R. Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, explores the processes that have led to the chemical evolution of Earth and other planets and objects in our solar system.

Timothy Grove awarded AGU's Harry H. Hess Medal

American Geophysical Union honors EAPS professor's “outstanding achievements in research on the constitution and evolution of the Earth and other planets.”

September 10, 2018

The MIT Quest for Intelligence will fund up to 100 students to participate in Quest-themed UROP projects each semester.

MIT undergraduates to embark on The Quest

Up to 100 Quest-funded UROP projects aim to crack the code of human and machine intelligence.

September 7, 2018

James Maxwell was the first to realize that light is able to travel in perfect circles within the fish-eye lens because the density of the lens changes, with material being thickest at the middle and gradually thinning out toward the edges.

Fish-eye lens may entangle pairs of atoms

Scientists find a theoretical optical device may have uses in quantum computing.

September 5, 2018

A candidate event display for the production of a Higgs boson decaying to two b-quarks (blue cones), in association with a W boson decaying to a muon (red) and a neutrino. The neutrino leaves the detector unseen, and is reconstructed through the missing transverse energy (dashed line).

3 Questions: Philip Harris on first observation of long-predicted Higgs boson decay

Seeing Higgs boson decay required “magic-eye” focus; may help physicists understand why the universe has mass.

August 28, 2018

Exploring cancer metabolism

Matthew Vander Heiden seeks new cancer treatments that exploit tumor cells’ abnormal metabolism.

August 28, 2018

Postdoc Rui Qing and Principal Research Scientist Shuguang Zhang led the effort to find a simple way to make membrane-bound proteins water-soluble.

Scientists alter membrane proteins to make them easier to study

By making hydrophobic sections water-soluble, researchers hope to learn more about protein structures.

August 27, 2018

Julia 1.0, developed and incubated at MIT, was officially released to the public during JuliaCon, an annual conference of Julia users held recently in London.

MIT-created programming language Julia 1.0 debuts

The dynamic programming language, which is free and open source, combines the speed and popular features of the best scientific and technical software.

August 27, 2018