Research

Researchers achieve RNA interference, in a lighter packagePared-down nucleic acid nanoparticle poses less risk of side effects, offers better targeting.

From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapseFindings could help fishery and wildlife managers monitor their stocks before disaster strikes.

Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli PrizesBiennial prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience include a $1 million cash award in each field.

Finding good music in noisy online marketsMIT researchers revisit data from a seminal online experiment but draw more encouraging conclusions.

Mechanical engineering’s condiment-bottle coating gives waste the slipMIT $100K competition runner-up LiquiGlide developed out of Varanasi group

Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies established in Department of Political ScienceEndowed chair established with a gift of $5 million from the Stanton Foundation

Zuber wins faculty’s Killian AwardPlanetary trailblazer recognized for ‘extraordinary skills and talent.’

Crowding causes cells to produce an orderly matrix of moleculesMaking proteins stand in line could lead to more lifelike lab tests.

Device may inject a variety of drugs without using needlesJet-injected drugs could improve patient compliance, reduce accidental needle sticks.

Daskalakis wins Microsoft Faculty Fellowship

Civil engineers find savings where the rubber meets the roadStudy shows that pavement deflection under vehicle tires makes for a continuous uphill drive that increases fuel consumption.

Daniela Rus named CSAIL directorEECS professor to become new leader of MIT’s largest interdepartmental laboratory.

MIT awarded more than $2 million in NEUP grants, fellowshipsIncludes $1.65 million in Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Programs grants and $450,000 in graduate student fellowships.

The elusive capacity of networksCalculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.

Andrea Campbell: Public opinion and policy viewed through an historical lensProfessor studies taxation, Social Security, health insurance and more.

Karnik, Parra win DOE Early Career Research Program awards

The guiding light and the glass infrastructureNew developments in way finding

Dresselhaus receives Fermi AwardHonored by Obama, Chu at ceremony in Washington.

Exploding the myths of manufacturingMIT conference explores the complex state of an industry showing signs of revival.

Studying school quality, to fight inequalityNew MIT center examines education and its lifelong effects.

In search of new ways of producing nano-materialsKong’s research focuses on how to make and control novel forms of thin-film carbon.

Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain cellsNew method offers automated way to record electrical activity inside neurons in the living brain.

Science Policy Initiative calls on Congress to support investments in R&DStudents traveled to Washington to urge continued funding.

McGovern Institute honors inventor of brain scan technologyDavid Cohen honored for his invention of magnetoencephalography.

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