New center will push frontiers of sensing technology
First “center of excellence” for new MIT.nano facility will focus on novel detectors and imaging systems.
Project Apophis
Space Systems Engineering students design a close-range mission to a giant asteroid that will fly by Earth in 2029.
Exploring elusive high-energy particles in an unusual metal
Exotic metal displays behavior that could lead to new infrared detectors.
Chemists reveal amyloid structure
Discovery of how amyloids bind metal ions sheds light on protein function.
Michale Fee receives Fundamental Science Investigator Award
Award will support studies into how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, with a focus on the songbird as a model system.
Rivers on three worlds tell different tales
Study finds history of Titan’s landscape resembles that of Mars, not Earth
Richard Schrock wins faculty’s Killian Award
Chemist honored for his pioneering research in inorganic and organometallic chemistry.
Classroom Earth: Drones over the desert
Professor Kristin Bergmann and her class used innovative technology to explore the sedimentary history of the Carrara Formation in California's Death Valley.
Raul Boquin: Working toward high-quality education for all
MIT senior envisions opportunities for “every person of the world who wants to learn something.”
![“The observations are telling us there will be increases [in extreme rainfall] at almost all latitudes, but if you want to know what’s going to happen at the scale of a continent or smaller, it’s a much more difficult question,” Paul O’Gorman says.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201705/mit-extreme-rain.jpg?itok=3RZFd0k3)
Varied increases in extreme rainfall with global warming
Intensification of extreme rainfall varies from region to region, study shows.
J-WAFS awards $1.4 million in third round of seed grant funding
Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $200,000 per year for two years, overhead free, for innovative research on food and water challenges.
Biologists identify key step in lung cancer evolution
Blocking the transition to a more aggressive state could offer a new treatment strategy.
MIT researchers develop new way to clear pollutants from water
Electrochemical method can remove even tiny amounts of contamination.