Science Spotlights

Feynman’s Vision

Jan 2, 2011

Co-chairs of the “Plenty of Room in the Middle” symposium reflect on the celebrated physicist’s role in the narrative of nanoscience. What really happened when Richard Feynman gave his now-famous talk “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” in which, with amazing clarity, he outlined future wonders of nanoscale science and technology?

Nano Meets Astro: A Dialogue with MacArthur Recipients Michal Lipson and Nergis Mavalvala

Jan 2, 2011

A conversation with Michal Lipson of Cornell University and Nergis Mavalvala of MIT, 2010 MacArthur Fellowship winners, on the intersections between nanoscience and astrophysics.

In Search of Another Earth: Part Three

Dec 29, 2010

In part three of a three-part series, MIT News explored MIT researchers’ roles in the quest to find an Earth twin and the effort to make sense of the 500 exoplanets that have been discovered since 1995.

In Search of Another Earth: Part Two

Dec 28, 2010

In part two of a three-part series, MIT News explored MIT researchers’ roles in the quest to find an Earth twin and the effort to make sense of the 500 exoplanets that have been discovered since 1995.