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Teaching with digital technology awards 2022
Now in its seventh year, the Teaching with Digital Technology Awards are student-nominated awards for instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. The...
Topographies that talk
Geology professor and MacArthur “genius” Taylor Perron explores our world and others to understand how landscapes evolve and what they can tell us about the future of our planet. Read...
Astronomer Richard Binzel retires from MIT after 33 years
Binzel’s research developed key insights into the solar system and played a role in multiple NASA missions. Richard Binzel space head shot. Photo Credit: L. Barry Hetherington MIT’s Department of...
A systems level approach to biogeography
A new CBIOMES paper presents, for the first time, an interpretation of observed, strain-level, basin-scale biogeography using genome-scale modeling of cellular metabolism, physiology, and fitness. Read this at CBIOMES The...
Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake
The first scientific analysis of images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover has now confirmed that Mars’ Jezero crater — which today is a dry, wind-eroded depression — was once a...
Faculty Feature: Camilla Cattania, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, finding what’s at fault in the Earth
From MIT LIP Despite steady advances in the science of earthquake behaviors, we don’t know exactly when or where the next Big Ones will strike. In fact, “earthquake prediction may never...
Documentary short, “The Uprising,” showcases women in science who pressed for equal rights at MIT in the 1990s
The MIT Press today announced the digital release of “The Uprising,” a documentary short about the unprecedented behind-the-scenes effort that amassed irrefutable evidence of differential treatment of men and women...
Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions
The cosmic boundary, perhaps caused by a young Jupiter or an emerging wind, likely shaped the composition of infant planets. Read this on MIT News In the early solar system,...
Q&A: Lucy mission launches to study ancient Trojan asteroids
On Saturday morning, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a 12-year, nearly 4-billion-mile mission to explore some of the oldest objects in the...
Astronomers detect signs of an atmosphere stripped from a planet during giant impact
Young planetary systems generally experience extreme growing pains, as infant bodies collide and fuse to form progressively larger planets. In our own solar system, the Earth and moon are thought...