January 15, 2013 What’s it like to operate satellites 260 miles above the Earth’s surface? Now more than 200 high-school students can tell you from experience — and add the engineering feat to their college applications.
January 10, 2013 Harnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.
January 9, 2013 A new algorithm for message dissemination in decentralized networks is faster than its predecessors but, unlike them, guarantees delivery.
January 8, 2013 MIT professor Vivek Bald’s new book details the overlooked waves of South Asian immigrants to the United States.
January 7, 2013 Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and Rockefeller University have developed a new technique for precisely altering the genomes of living cells by adding or deleting genes.
January 3, 2013 An online health-insurance exchange is coming to your state. How effective will it be?
December 21, 2012 MIT researchers develop a new approach using graphene sheets coated with nanowires.
December 20, 2012 Study shows that traffic congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.
December 18, 2012 A new technology developed at MIT may help to make biomarker detection much easier.