MIT and Harvard, two of the World’s Top Universities, join hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.

• MIT and Harvard, two of the World’s Top Universities, join hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.
• An initiative called edX, an online learning system which allows students to acquire knowledge across various course from a distance, has been initiated.
• Harvard and MIT each committed $30 million to the project, which will be overseen by a not-for-profit group based in Cambridge.
• Anant Agarwal, who led the development of MITx and directed MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, will be edX's first president. 

MIT and Harvard, two of the World’s Top Universities, join hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.

Flexible touch screen with printed graphene.

Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has spectacular strength, flexibility, transparency and electrical conductivity.

Spurred on by its potential for application in new devices like touch screens and solar cells, researchers have been toying with ways to make large sheets of pure graphene, for example by shaving off atom-thin flakes and chemically dissolving chunks of graphite oxide. Yet in the thirty-some years since graphene's discovery, laboratory experiments have mainly yielded mere flecks of the stuff, and mass manufacture has seemed a long way away.

"The future of the field certainly isn't flaking off pencil shavings," says Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. "The large-area production of monolayer graphene was a serious technological hurdle to advancing graphene technology."

Flexible touch screen with printed graphene.

Kites, Digital cameras for Aerial Mapping of Oill Spill by MIT-based Grassroots Mapping.

This is what i call economy Mapping (Aerial).

Grassroots Mapping, a project born out of MIT fellow Jeffrey Yoo Warren, is seeking to photograph and "map" the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Their project seeks to come up with cheap and easy to find tools for aerial photography.

Their newest project is using cameras attached to kites to photograph the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in order to assess the damage and help along the response to it.

The Gulf mapping project got under way on May 5th, and the project is now accepting donations to help fund its research.

Kites, Digital cameras for Aerial Mapping of Oill Spill by MIT-based Grassroots Mapping.

MIT-designed plane to use 70 % less fuel.

A 'green airplane' designed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-led research team is likely to use 70 per cent less fuel than existing ones while slashing noise and emission of nitrogen oxides.

The design was one of two that the team, led by faculty from the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), presented to the Nasa last month as part of a $2.1 million research contract.

MIT was the only university to lead one of the six US teams that won contracts from Nasa in October 2008. Ed Greitzer, professor of aeronautics and astronautics was the principal investigator of the project.

MIT-designed plane to use 70 % less fuel.