From rescue beacons to rain shields for bicycles, student innovations offer ways to improve experiences out in the elements.

MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built.

A new design technique could enable personalized medicine, studies of brain wiring.

Researchers synthesize a new kind of silk fiber — and find that music can help fine-tune the material’s properties.

Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, talks about the future of fossil fuels and the prospects for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions.

Discovery of feedback between sea ice and ocean improves Arctic ice extent forecast.

Sanjay Sarma has been appointed as MIT's first director of digital learning.

In a new book, MIT professor Yossi Sheffi argues that investment in global transportation hubs can spur a ‘feedback loop’ of regional growth.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) places renewed emphasis on interdisciplinary research, partnerships with alumni and industry, and experiential learning.

MIT chemical engineers have now designed an injectable gel that responds to the body’s high temperature by forming a reinforcing network that makes the gel much more durable, allowing it to function over a longer period of time.