Amy Watterson: Model engineer
The Plasma Science and Fusion Center mechanical engineer embraces her role in modeling fusion magnets and in promoting engineering to young women.
The Plasma Science and Fusion Center mechanical engineer embraces her role in modeling fusion magnets and in promoting engineering to young women.
The results could help scientists unravel the processes underlying plate tectonics.
Applied in the field, a new model reduced quakes from oil and gas processes; could help manage seismic events from carbon sequestration.
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but mice can’t recognize image sequences without guidance from the hippocampus.
Professors earn tenure in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics.
New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers.
After decades of plasma physics research, Senior Research Scientist Brian LaBombard is taking on magnets for MIT’s new fusion effort.
Miles Johnson ’21, a recent graduate in mathematics and EECS, employed a strong dorm network and personal interests including rock climbing and jazz to complete a rich MIT experience.
“Committee on the Environment” recognizes integration of design excellence with environmental performance.
Researchers find improvement in relative retention of women but predict decades of sustained effort are required to achieve gender parity.
To quickly express learning and memory genes, brain cells snap both strands of DNA in many more places and cell types than previously realized, a new study shows.
A scattering-type scanning nearfield optical microscope offers advantages to researchers across many disciplines.
Physics professor's new book looks at the international collaboration behind HERMES, an experiment studying the spin structure of matter.
Twenty-three instructors recognized for extraordinary online teaching with annual student-nominated award.