September 20, 2012 Innovation symposium touches on a dizzying array of topics, with themes of interdisciplinary collaboration, energy and innovation for the developing world.
September 19, 2012 Curiosity is the most ambitious planetary rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory projects JPL is undertaking.
September 18, 2012 As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.
September 18, 2012 New MIT system allows femtosecond-resolution movie of electrons in a topological insulator, a promising new electronic material.
September 17, 2012 Study estimates rate of intensification of extreme tropical rainfall with global warming.
September 13, 2012 MIT researchers devise a surprisingly simple but effective method for magnetically separating oil and water.
September 12, 2012 In addition to marking the beginning of L. Rafael Reif’s term as MIT’s 17th president, the festivities will celebrate the MIT community’s ethic of service.
September 11, 2012 A new method identifies the precise binding sites of transcription factors — proteins that regulate the production of other proteins — with 10 times the accuracy of its predecessors.
September 7, 2012 Brain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder.
August 31, 2012 A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.
