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Reif, 61, was elected to the post on Wednesday, May 16, by a vote of the MIT Corporation. He will assume the MIT presidency on July 2.
Nick Fang says predicting how hydrogels transform could help in the design of more complex and effective drug-delivery systems.
MIT’s Science Fiction Society curates an enormous library containing more than 90 percent of all English language science fiction ever published.
MIT President Susan Hockfield and Harvard University President Drew Faust, accompanied by top officials from both institutions, announced on Wednesday a new collaboration that will unite the Cambridge-based universities in an ambitious new partnership to deliver online ...
MIT researchers' new "multifunctional" glass, based on surface nanotextures that produce an array of conical features, is self-cleaning and resists fogging and glare.
Open Learning Enterprise head Anant Agarwal discusses MITx, the Institute's new online-learning initiative.
Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. Ken Kamrin of MIT MechE has come up with a model that predicts the flow of granular materials under a variety of conditions.
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model.
Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.
It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse? From Adam Smith and Max ...
Since 2001, Lodovica Illari and her colleague John Marshall have worked to make rotating fluid dynamics more intuitive for undergraduate students studying weather and climate, using a demonstration aptly named "Weather in a Tank."
Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you're underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents.
Pierre Azoulay, an economist at MIT Sloan, studies how life scientists work - or, more precisely, what makes them work well.
A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of the spacecraft observations.
MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Nenad Miljkovic discusses his team's work on condensation, nanodroplet formation, and new nanopatterned surfaces that could boost the efficiency of powerplants and desalination systems.
Under the surface, English and Japanese have deep similarities, as MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa argues in his new book, Case, Argument Structure, and Word Order.
Richard Braatz believes mathematics can help streamline the road to discovery in pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as nanotechnology.
MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has a vision that within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.
Bill Gates, philanthropist and retired co-founder of Microsoft Corp., urged MIT students on April 21, 2010 to focus their talent and energy on tackling the world's biggest challenges, including global health, poverty and education.
On Oct. 23, 2009, MIT proudly hosted a visit by President Barack Obama, which caused great excitement on campus and in the MIT community around the world. This short video produced by the MIT News Office captures the day's highlights.
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