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MIT materials scientist Christopher Schuh stands next to a truck bumper coated with a new nickel-tungsten alloy that could replace chrome plating.

Finishing touches: New alloys offer alternative to chrome

May 19, 2009

Innovator Selanikio Wins $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability

April 28, 2009

Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo is working on techniques for machine-based identification of dialects in a spoken language.

Dialect Detectives

System that distinguishes among variants in spoken languages could enhance automated machine translation

April 16, 2009

Q&A with Joseph Coughlin on AGNES and the AgeLab

April 14, 2009

This stimulator was used in a study to show that how humans feel the world can actually change how they see it --Â and vice versa. The device consists of a centimeter-square array composed of 60 pins to deliver precisely controlled vibrations to the fingertips.

How you feel the world impacts how you see it

Motion illusions reveal new insights into perception

April 9, 2009

MIT spinoff gets Detroit contract

Chrysler selects A123Systems batteries for new line of electric and hybrid cars

April 8, 2009

Hiroshi Ishii with one of his early projects, bottles that play music when their stoppers are removed.

Ishii makes the virtual tangible

A 'hands-on' approach to computers

April 6, 2009

Q&A with Richard Hynes on stem cell funding

March 18, 2009

Chandrakasan honored for semiconductor work

March 12, 2009

Re-engineered battery material could lead to rapid recharging of many devices

Beltway for electrical energy solves long-standing problem

March 11, 2009

Lifting the ban

March 10, 2009

Hologram seminar probes past and future of 3-D imaging

March 10, 2009

The will to sustain

NAE meeting at MIT charts the future of transportation

March 6, 2009

This year's MacVicar Faculty Fellows --Â Vladimir Bulovic, Diana Henderson, Daniel Jackson and David Jones -- were announced at a reception on Thursday, March 5, at Gray House. Gathered to celebrate were, from left, Provost L. Rafael Reif, Bulovic, President Susan Hockfield, Jones, Henderson, Jackson, and Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel Hastings.

Four professors named MacVicar fellows

March 5, 2009

Transportation, transformed

Multidisciplinary research will go way beyond the car

March 4, 2009

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