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A new semiautonomous driver system can take the wheel to keep drivers safe.
A new method for producing multiple-perspective 3-D images could prove more practical in the short term than holography.
MIT researchers are using graphene, a one-atom-thick form of the element carbon, in the quest to make the earth's oceans a viable source of potable water.
MIT researchers have developed new software that amplifies variations in successive frames of video that are imperceptible to the naked eye.
Scientists from MIT, Brown University, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and other institutions have mapped the moon's Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, and found possible evidence for small amounts of ice on the crater's floor.
A new system for ultrasound imaging developed at MIT allows precise measurements and tracking of disease progression.
Researchers at MIT have found a new way of making complex three-dimensional structures using self-assembling polymer materials that form tiny wires and junctions.
See some of the numbers behind putting on the Institute's largest annual event.
Meet a few of the members of MIT's Class of 2012 who are continuing their public service projects after graduation.
A Brass Rat — MIT's class ring — was returned to the United States with the effects of a Marine killed in combat who had no connection to the Institute. Help us find the solider, or family of the soldier, whose ring this is.
"A revolutionary super-slippery coating to liberate your ketchup!"
MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle.
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.
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