MIT.nano receives LEED Platinum certification
Commitment to sustainable practices earns top honor from the U.S Green Building Council.
Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
MIT engineers have made their initial design more practical, efficient, and scalable.
Kofi Blake is bringing people together
“There’s no greater feeling than when you’re with all your classmates and they’re having a great time,” says MIT’s senior class president.
Sheila Widnall: A lifetime exploring the unknown
During 64 years at MIT, the Institute Professor Emerita has been a trailblazer in aerospace and the U.S. military, and a changemaker for women in STEM.
3 Questions: Ram Sasisekharan on hastening vaccines and treatments
Biological engineer discusses condensing the time taken to develop therapeutics down from many years to a matter of months.
Undergraduates ramp up research during pandemic diaspora
Far from MIT, nuclear science and engineering students take ownership of projects and explore new terrain.
Generating photons for communication in a quantum computing system
New technique provides a means of interconnection between processors, opening the way to a complete quantum computing platform.
Less scatterbrained scatterplots
Large datasets are difficult to depict as scatterplots — but that may change with a new CSAIL project for creating interactive visualizations.
A step toward a universal flu vaccine
With computer models and lab experiments, researchers are working on a strategy for vaccines that could protect against any influenza virus.
Three from MIT receive National Health Institute Awards
Michael Birnbaum, Anders Hansen, and Tami Lieberman receive NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.