System predicts how MIT’s tallest structure responds to vibrations, may help monitor stress over time.

MIT faculty discuss how a multidisciplinary, multi-university collaboration helps us understand the mechanics of social and political change.

Grad student Billy Ndengeyingoma helps improve affordable-housing design in Africa.

New analysis finds way to safely conduct heat from graphene to biological tissues.

Study reveals closely related microbes can diversify rapidly via horizontal gene transfer.

Ranked No. 1 for the fifth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 42 disciplines.

Big-data analysis could give city planners timelier, more accurate alternatives to commuter surveys.

Professor Philip Gschwend discusses the importance of comprehensive systems approaches to curing environmental ills.

Key flow mechanisms, crucial to carbon sequestration and fuel-cell operation, have been visualized.

Electric vehicles can meet drivers’ needs enough to replace nearly 90 percent of vehicles now on the road.