by RLE at MIT | Sep 28, 2008 | Awards, News Links
Two MIT faculty members—a physicist and a structural engineer who studies architectural history—have won 2008 MacArthur Fellowships, commonly known as “genius” grants. Marin Soljacic ’96, assistant professor of physics, and John Ochsendorf, associate professor of...
by RLE at MIT | Sep 11, 2008 | News Links
A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in existence, according to new insights by an MIT leader in the field. «more» Related Links: MIT...
by RLE at MIT | Sep 3, 2008 | News Links
MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking. Ever since Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman first proposed the theory of...
by RLE at MIT | Aug 21, 2008 | News Links
MIT engineers report a new approach to identifying protein structures key to Alzheimer’s disease, an important step toward the development of new drugs that could prevent such structures from forming. «more» Related Links: MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer’s structures: Work...
by RLE at MIT | Aug 19, 2008 | News Links
In his darkened lab at MIT, Marc Baldo shines an ultraviolet lamp on a 10-*centimeter square of glass. He has coated the surfaces of the glass with dyes that glow faintly orange under the light. Yet the uncoated edges of the glass are shining more brightly–four neat,...