How do people become addicted to online games and social networking sites?
By using them. The principles of online interaction aren’t so different from those of a slot machine…
No Bounds to How Much We Can Think
MIT senior and native of Cameroon, Pelkins Ajanoh, believes “in the future where [his] great grandkids are going to be surprised th...
Project Sandcastle
On a foggy night in San Francisco, a Bat-Signal appears in the sky. It flickers above a house on the highest hilltop in the city, whe...
Future Engineers
We are dedicated to making science and engineering open to everyone. Too often, kids’ zip codes play a larger role in determining t...
The Creation of a Public Engineer
“In my lab, we bridge a gap,” says Hadley Sikes. “We try to figure out how to take established science and implement it in clin...
Finding Wonderland
Marie Elimbi Moudio ’16 is at home in the machine shop. Its familiar smells — oil, metal, dust — never fail to comfort her. She...
Global Experiences
Engineering challenges don’t come with a nationality. The most pressing ones — climate, energy, health, transportation, clean wat...
The Ingestible Bacterial-Electronic Sensor
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stoma...
After MIT, New Officers Will Serve Their Country
A few hours after they received their MIT diplomas on the Institute’s famed Killian Court, 12 young women and men stood on the deck...
The Warmup
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They have a promising idea, a series of ...