-
Meenakshi Chakraborty named 2019 Churchill Scholar
March 14, 2019Meenakshi Chakraborty, a senior from Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been named a 2019 Churchill Scholar and will...
-
Buddhist nun Sister Dang Nghiem invites MIT community to practice mindfulness
March 14, 2019Dharma teacher Sister Dang Nghiem challenged her listeners to “Look up from your computer. And see...
-
Exercises in amazement: Discovering deep learning
March 14, 2019It was standing-room only in the Stata Center’s Kirsch Auditorium when some 300 attendees showed up...
-
Robot hand is soft and strong
March 14, 2019Fifty years ago, the first industrial robot arm (called Unimate) assembled a simple breakfast of toast,...
-
Quantum sensing method measures minuscule magnetic fields
March 14, 2019A new way of measuring atomic-scale magnetic fields with great precision, not only up and down...
-
Tectonics in the tropics trigger Earth’s ice ages, study finds
March 13, 2019Over the last 540 million years, the Earth has weathered three major ice ages — periods...
-
Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
March 13, 2019The next time you set a kettle to boil, consider this scenario: After turning the burner...
-
Brain wave stimulation may improve Alzheimer’s symptoms
March 13, 2019By exposing mice to a unique combination of light and sound, MIT neuroscientists have shown that...
Most Popular
