“Patience is important for our subject,” says math professor Wei Zhang. “You’re always making infinitesimal progress.”

A planetary system orbiting an unusually quiet star is ideal for future habitability searches.

MIT affiliates are noted for accomplishments that are poised to have a dramatic impact on the world.

Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments.

MIT researchers are developing a battery that could both capture carbon dioxide in power plant exhaust and convert it to a solid that’s ready for safe disposal.

“When the U.S. economy falls into the next recession, as it inevitably must, the Federal Reserve needs to respond by sharply lowering interest rates,” argues Senior Lecturer Robert Pozen. “However, U.S. interest rates are now so low that the Fed has little dry powder in its arsenal.”

High school students participating in the MIT Edgerton Center’s summer Engineering Design Workshop discuss their experiences on campus so far.

Professor Tod Machover and graduate student Charles Holbrow explore how streaming services and machine learning could impact the future of music.

Media Lab Director Joi Ito writes about identifying a better way to measure the impact of charitable giving.