massachusetts institute of technology
AeroAstro professor Olivier de Weck surveys aircraft blueprints in MIT's Neumann Hangar. With de Weck's new new approach, engineers may design airplanes to fly in the face of likely failures.
  • Self-oscillating gels
  • Self-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation...
  • IceWall
  • As part of the Festival of Art, Science and Technology the IceWall instillation consists of blocks of ice stacked on each other, with seeds frozen in ...
  • Green Grease
  • Students from MIT's Biodiesel team organizes the project, called Green Grease, and they traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil last summer to begin the impleme...
  • The origins of 2.007
  • Professor of Engineering Woodie Flowers discusses course 2.70 and how it evolved into MIT's annual 2.007 Mechanical Engineering Robot Contest.
  • Remembering Ron McNair
  • On the 25th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, AeroAstro professor Jeffrey Hoffman remembers his colleague.
  • Holographic TV
  • Using a single Kinect camera and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.
  • Infinity, transformed
  • MIT community members discuss the planning and development of the Institute's architecture, focusing on the Infinite Corridor and the recent opening o...
  • Medical mirror
  • PhD candidate Ming-Zher Poh discusses a system he designed that could measure vital signs just by having a person sit in front of a low-cost camera.
  • Nobel laureate
  • MIT Institute Professor Peter A. Diamond speaks at a press conference following the announcement that he won this year's Nobel Prize in Economics.
  • Autonomous parking
  • Research Scientist at MIT's AgeLab and Associate Director of New England University Transportation Center Bryan Reimer discusses and demos a car that ...