Creating dynamic symmetry in quantum systems

Physicists and engineers have long been interested in creating new forms of matter, those not typically…

Carbon nanotube-based sensor can detect SARS-CoV-2 proteins

Using specialized carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have designed a novel sensor that can detect SARS-CoV-2 without…

Innovating delivery of financial services for Asian banks

The MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node recently hosted its annual fintech entrepreneurship program, called MIT Entrepreneurship…

A dispatch and routing platform to improve deliveries

More and more people are doing their shopping from home these days, and whether they’re ordering…

Professor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, world-renowned expert in fluid mechanics, dies at 93

Ronald Probstein, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away at the age of 93 on Sept.…

MIT appoints members of new faculty committee to drive climate action plan

In May, responding to the world’s accelerating climate crisis, MIT issued an ambitious new plan, “Fast…

Considering the spiderweb

The spiderweb is an everyday architecture — non-monumental and easily overlooked. Yet artists and scientists are…

A material difference

Eesha Khare has always seen a world of matter. The daughter of a hardware engineer and…

Three from MIT receive 2021 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has selected three MIT students as recipients of its prestigious…

Six from MIT named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Six MIT affiliates have been selected for the newest cohort of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars program.…