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Cutting through the fogNew surface coating for glass could eliminate image distortion caused by condensation and also prevent frost buildup.

Sports analytics: a real game-changer2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference underscores how statistics keep changing the way sports are played — and changing minds in the industry.

MIT researchers develop solar-to-fuel roadmap for crystalline siliconNew analysis points the way to optimizing efficiency of an integrated system for harvesting sunlight to make storable fuel.

How the brain loses and regains consciousnessStudy reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients.

MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz nominated Secretary of EnergyPresident Obama’s pick is head of the MIT Energy Initiative and a former undersecretary of energy.

Nate Silver presents forecasting work as antidote to ‘terrible’ political punditsIn MIT talk, celebrated election forecaster offers critique of media, advice to students and hints about his future projects.

Short algorithm, long-range consequencesA new technique for solving ‘graph Laplacians’ is drastically simpler than its predecessors, with implications for a huge range of practical problems.

How numbers can reveal hidden truths about sportsMIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference brings professionals and statistics-savvy fans together to study the games people play.

Q&A: U.S. immigration policy and entrepreneurshipMIT’s Bill Aulet, Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook and Edward Roberts discuss the challenges facing foreign-born entrepreneurs under U.S. immigration policy.

Research update: Chemists find help from nature in fighting cancerStudy of several dozen compounds based on a fungal chemical shows potent anti-tumor activity.

New insight into how people choose insurance plansStudy: Consumers avoid high-deductible plans if they expect to reduce their use of medical care.

Exploring the brain, and the worldBrain and cognitive sciences major Joy Ekuta researches, learns and teaches her way around the globe.

Sterilizing with the sunSolar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.

Knight Fellowship has made its mark on science journalismMIT-based program has provided research experience for hundreds of reporters.

Teaching robots lateral thinkingNew algorithms could help household robots work around their physical shortcomings.

A new look at high-temperature superconductorsMethod allows direct detection of rapid fluctuations that may help to explain how high-temperature superconducting materials work.

MIT report identifies keys to new American innovationFrom ‘Main Street’ firms to multinationals, improvements possible in funding of research, collaboration among manufacturers.

Mercury may have harbored an ancient magma oceanMassive lava flows may have given rise to two distinct rock types on Mercury’s surface.

How human language could have evolved from birdsongLinguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech.

MIT researchers build Quad HD TV chipA new video standard enables a fourfold increase in the resolution of TV screens, and an MIT chip was the first to handle it in real time.