Researchers synthesize a new kind of silk fiber — and find that music can help fine-tune the material’s properties.

Claude Canizares will take a new role as a vice president with responsibility for international partnerships.

New MRI technique could help doctors track how patients respond to treatment.

MIT engineers propose a new way of harnessing photons for electricity, with the potential for capturing a wider spectrum of solar energy.

Discovery of feedback between sea ice and ocean improves Arctic ice extent forecast.

Mechanical engineering professor will shepherd efforts to integrate elements of online education into traditional MIT courses.

These more durable gels could find applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering.

A new approach to processing ‘big data’ creates succinct representations of huge data sets, so that existing algorithms can handle them efficiently.

Yeast cells that share food have a survival edge over their freeloading neighbors — particularly when there is bacterial competition.

Institute researchers aim to spur development and evaluation of useful technologies to help the world’s poor.