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Featured video: A musical encore for a re-imagined library
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Graduate students perform Martinů’s “Piano Trio in D Minor,” originally commissioned for Hayden Library's 1950 dedication
MIT graduate students perform Bohuslav Martinů's Piano Trio in D Minor, originally commissioned for Hayden Library's 1950 dedicati
OSIRIS-REx mission carrying MIT student experiment wins Space Foundation award
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr. Award for Space Exploration honors project team’s success harvesting a sample from asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was awarded the John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr. Award for Space Exploration by the Space Foundation.
Nancy Kanwisher wins National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Professor and cognitive neuroscientist recognized for groundbreaking work on the functional organization of the human brain
MIT cognitive neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher received the 2022 National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences for her “pioneering r
Why are comet heads green — but not their tails?
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 An accidental discovery and a love of spectroscopic perturbations leads to the solution of a 90-year-old puzzle
Researchers recently proved a 90-year-old theory on why comets’ heads, but never the tails, are green, by spectroscopic investigation of an
School of Science announces 2022 Infinite Expansion Awards
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Eight postdocs and research scientists within the School of Science honored for contributions to the Institute
MIT scientists and scholars Héctor de Jesús-Cortés, Harold Erbin, Megan Hill, Kevin Kuns, Xingcheng Lin, Alexandra Pike, Nora Shipp, and Jak
Professors Elchanan Mossel and Rosalind Picard named 2021 ACM Fellows
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Fellowship honors ACM members whose accomplishments drive innovation and make broader advances possible
MIT professors Elchanan Mossel and Rosalind Picard are named 2021 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery.
A stealthy way to combat tumors
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 MIT biologists show that helper immune cells disguised as cancer cells can help rejuvenate T cells that attack tumors
MIT researchers uncovered a new way to indirectly activate T cells that can target tumors, by recruiting a population of helper immune cells
Where did that sound come from?
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 MIT neuroscientists have developed a computer model that can answer that question as well as the human brain
MIT neuroscientists developed a computer model that can localize sounds. The model, which consists of several convolutional neural networks,
Vibrating atoms make robust qubits, physicists find
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 The new qubits stay in “superposition” for up to 10 seconds, and could make a promising foundation for quantum computers
MIT physicists have discovered a new quantum bit, or “qubit,” in the form of vibrating pairs of atoms known as fermions. The new qubit appea
Five MIT faculty elected 2021 AAAS Fellows
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Dincă, Feng, Hunter, Shoemaker, and Wang are recognized for their efforts to advance science
Five MIT faculty members — Mircea Dinca, Guoping Feng, Ian Hunter, David Shoemaker, and Evelyn Wang — have been elected as fellows of the Am
Nanograins make for a seismic shift
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 A new study finds curious properties of tiny crystals hold clues to earthquake formation
New research finds the low-viscosity, rate-strengthening properties of rock nanocrystals may influence fault zone instability, offering a ne
Physicists discover “secret sauce” behind exotic properties of a new quantum material
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 New work on superconducting kagome metal will aid design of other unusual quantum materials, with many potential applications
Physicists have discovered the “secret sauce” behind some of the exotic properties of a new quantum material that has transfixed physicists
Scientists make first detection of exotic “X” particles in quark-gluon plasma
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 The findings could redefine the kinds of particles that were abundant in the early universe
MIT physicists have found evidence of rare X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The fi
Getting quantum dots to stop blinking
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 New approach solves a persistent problem of intermittency that has hindered use of the tiny light emitters for biological imaging or quantum photonics
Quantum dots have many possible applications, but they are limited by their tendency to blink off at random intervals. MIT chemists have com
TESS Science Office at MIT hits milestone of 5,000 exoplanet candidates
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Catalog of planet candidates nearly doubles in size during 2020-21
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) catalog of planet candidates now has more than 5,000 TESS Objects of Interest. Planned e
Encapsulation as a method for preventing degradation in Li-air batteries
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Discovery allows scientists to study crucial intermediate in battery development
A research team from MIT, Harvard, and Cornell University has discovered means to isolate and study a molecule responsible for electrolyte a
Babies can tell who has close relationships based on one clue: saliva
🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study
MIT neuroscientists have identified a specific signal that young children and even babies can use to determine whether two people have a str