Jennifer Chu covers mechanical engineering, mathematics, physics, aeronautics, astronautics, and earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences as a writer for the MIT News Office.
Scientists have created a three-dimensional atlas of the oxygen-deficient zones in the world's oceans to better understand how they change over time.
New results show North Atlantic hurricanes have increased in frequency over the last 150 years, judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s.
'Hot Jupiter's' are massive balls of gas that travel around their stars in less than 10 days, with the most recent traveling around its star in just 16 hours.
有大量证据表明，我们睡眠的时长会影响我们在解决数学问题、进行对话甚至阅读本文等认知任务上的表现。较少探讨的是睡眠不足是否会影响我们走路或进行其他被认为是精神负担较小的活动方式。
A new MIT study reports that sleep deprivation affects your walk. How well we can control our stride can be affected by lack of sleep.
Researchers at MIT have discovered how a tissue’s cells are arranged can serve as a fingerprint for the tissue’s 'phase', which could diagnose potential cancers.
Dinosaurs may have lived in social herds as early as 193 million years ago, according to a scientific discovery made in southern Patagonia.
Engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed a lightweight, and potentially low-cost neuroprosthetic hand for upper-limb amputees.
Geologists at MIT have estimated the temperature of the Earth's interior, potentially enhancing our understanding of plate tectonics.
Tuna fish are being increasingly found in marine sanctuaries, away from commercial fishing and mining.
MIT engineers have developed a system that allows drones to learn how to manouevre around imaginary objects.
Engineers and biologists at MIT have designed a new “living material” that can sense chemical with light.
Researchers have developed a new technique to monitor the seasonal changes in Greenland’s ice sheet, using seismic vibrations generated by crashing ocean waves.
Exo-planets similar to Earth outside our solar system could be the most likely places to find life.
