Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.

Using Bitcoin to prevent identity theft

System piggybacks on the digital currency’s security protocols to thwart hijacked servers.

Cinematography on the fly

System directs camera-equipped drones to maintain framing of an aerial shot.

Speeding up quality control for biologics

Nanofluidic device enables rapid testing of protein drugs produced by living cells.

Rivers on three worlds tell different tales

Study finds history of Titan’s landscape resembles that of Mars, not Earth

Darwin visits Wall Street

Andrew Lo’s new book urges a rethink of financial markets, along evolutionary lines.

Writing for The Wall Street Journal about businesses investing in green power, Brian Baskin highlights how MIT joined forces with two Boston-based organizations to buy power from a solar farm in North Carolina. “We saw it as an opportunity where we could set an example,” says Joe Higgins, MIT's director of infrastructure business operations.

Washington Post reporter Travis Andrews writes that MIT researchers have created a workout suit with ventilating flaps embedded with bacteria that automatically open and close in response to sweat. Andrews explains that “as the bacteria relaxes and shrinks into itself, the cells pull away from the wearer, opening the flaps and letting fresh air flood in.”

Dr. Phil Erickson of the Haystack Observatory speaks with Sarah Fecht of Popular Science about a study he co-authored showing that radio waves may protect the Earth’s atmosphere from space weather. “In the first hours to a couple of days into a solar storm, the waves seem to halt the electrons from coming in further,” says Erickson.

David Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues

Winningest pitcher in MIT history and baseball analytics ace will join Seattle Mariners’ operations office after graduation.

First-ever winners of MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs announced

New annual prize lauds innovation in online courses.

T.W. “Bill” Lambe, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, dies at 96

Longtime MIT professor and author of two influential texts was a leader in geotechnical engineering.