Story Archive
Smart Watches
The designers of the Pebble watch realized that a mobile phone is more useful if you don’t have to take it out of your pocket.
Hacking HIV
Thirty-four million people in the world are infected with HIV. Only eight million have access to life-saving drugs, and there’s no effective vaccine. Researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard won’t rest until they find one.
Birds + Bees = Language
Linguists think human language melds birdsong, animal communication
MIT Team Wins Turing Award
Goldwasser and Micali revolutionized cryptography
Hydrophobics Get Tough
New ceramics can take a beating and still shed water
Moniz Nominated as Energy Secretary
Director of MIT Energy Initiative would replace Steven Chu in cabinet post
Short and Sweet
New technique for solving “graph Laplacians” makes it easier to tackle a wide array of practical problems
Beating Cancer at Its Own Game
Some cancer cell mutations can slow or halt tumor growth
Back to BASIC
A new book explores a single line of code for the Commodore 64
