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Research update: Jumping droplets help heat transferScalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers could make for more efficient power generation and desalination.

Editing the genome with high precisionNew method allows scientists to insert multiple genes in specific locations, delete defective genes.

Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistorNew design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.

The health-insurance markets of the (very near) futurePolicymakers must address ‘tension’ between competition and ease of use.

Improving the accuracy of cancer diagnosesNew spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.

Flexible, light solar cells could provide new opportunitiesMIT researchers develop a new approach using graphene sheets coated with nanowires.

Evolution: It’s all in how you splice itMIT biologists find that alternative splicing of RNA rewires signaling in different tissues and may often contribute to species differences.

Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-upsStudy: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.

MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetismExperiments demonstrate ‘quantum spin liquid,’ which could have applications in new computer memory storage.

A flow of creativityMIT’s Gediminas Urbonas emerged from the old Soviet Union to produce new art in Cambridge.

Graduate student David Sengeh gives back to Sierra LeoneMedia Lab doctoral student created a competition to help youth in his home country create their own solutions.

Explained: GraphsA simple tool for representing relationships between data, devices or almost anything else has ubiquitous applications in computer science.

New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosisNanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them much easier to detect in the urine.

Tissue engineering: Growing new organs, and moreResearch could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs.

In Profile: Roman Stocker finds big effects from tiny organismsFrom microbes in the ocean to cats in the kitchen, MIT researcher uncovers surprising phenomena where biology meets fluid mechanics.

In search of better antidepressantsNew study suggests targeting dopamine-releasing neurons could lead to more effective therapies.

The subculture of cheeseMIT anthropologist looks inside the growing world of do-it-yourself American cheese-makers.

Final 2.009 projects make outdoor living betterFrom rescue beacons to rain shields for bicycles, student innovations offer ways to improve experiences out in the elements.

Inspiration from a porcupine’s quillsUnderstanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.

Tiny compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon’s dominanceMIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.