Brains, fashion, alien life, and more: Highlights from the Cambridge Science Festival
Organized by the MIT Museum, the 2024 celebration of science, technology, and culture was the largest in its history, with over 50,000 visitors at 300 events.
Organized by the MIT Museum, the 2024 celebration of science, technology, and culture was the largest in its history, with over 50,000 visitors at 300 events.
Hundreds of observers took advantage of great weather to view the 2024 partial eclipse.
In a first, four different technologies will monitor changes in the upper atmosphere, locally and across the continent, as the sun’s radiation dips.
Associate director and geospace lead scientist to succeed Colin Lonsdale.
The observations will help astronomers pin down the physics of the plasma around black holes.
Lincoln Laboratory’s Agile MicroSat will be the first small satellite to demonstrate long-duration, low-altitude flight with autonomous maneuvering.
New observations show the deepest parts of the quasar's plasma jet in a project led by MIT Haystack Observatory.
Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.
A distributed sensor network may help researchers identify the physical processes contributing to diminishing sea ice in the planet’s fastest-warming region.
The image reveals a glowing, donut-shaped ring at the Milky Way’s heart.
Brent Minchew leads two proposals to better understand glacial physics and predict sea-level rise as part of MIT's Climate Grand Challenges competition.
MIT Haystack Observatory identifies long-duration atmospheric waves launched by the recent Tonga eruption.
MIT Haystack Observatory will be part of the new radio spectrum management and coordination center.
Research from MIT Haystack Observatory finds a stratospheric warming event over Antarctica linked to anomalies in near-Earth space above North America and Europe.
Planetary physicist and former director of the MIT Center for Space Research and the Arecibo Observatory helped repurpose military radar technology for science and space exploration.