Peter H. Fisher, the Thomas A. Frank (1977) Professor of Physics, will step down as the…
Tag: School of Science
Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but…
Providing hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
Photonics — the science of guiding and manipulating light — enables applications ranging from telecommunications, artificial…
“Spring-loaded” system pops phosphorus into molecular rings
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring,…
Engineered bacteria could help protect “good” gut microbes from antibiotics
Antibiotics are life-saving drugs, but they can also harm the beneficial microbes that live in the…
Finding the questions that guide MIT fusion research
“One of the things I learned was, doing good science isn’t so much about finding the…
Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk
Note: This is the final article in a four-part interview series featuring the work of the…
Workshop tackles a critical gap slowing the development of new hardware technologies
A growing gap in the transition of inventions from research labs to market is slowing the…