Unraveling silks’ secrets
A new analysis of the structure of silks explains the paradox at the heart of their super-strength, and may lead to even stronger synthetic materials.
3 Questions: Eduardo Kausel on Chile’s massive earthquake
How stringent building codes limited damage in Chile, and why there’s cause for concern in parts of the U.S.
MIT's chapter of Engineers Without Borders launches first project
Students hope to bring electricity and clean water to Ugandan health clinic
Three professors win top national early-career honors
Presidential awards to Buehler, Dawson and Sheffield were presented this week at a White House ceremony
Solving history’s ‘largest mass poisoning’
Research points to carbon in man-made ponds as catalyst for arsenic contamination in Bangladeshi wells
Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded
Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric
arrangement
Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A geotechnical engineer who served on the
panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina is the new head
of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Taking the heat off
Biomimetic-engineering design can replace spaghetti tangle of nanotubes in thermal material