Stories on tamper-proof ID tags, sound-suppressing silk, and generative AI’s understanding of the world were some of the most popular topics on MIT News. | Continue reading
Top stories highlighted the Climate Project at MIT and two new Institute collaborative projects; free tuition for most new undergraduates; Nobels and other major awards; a solar eclipse over campus; and more. | Continue reading
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges. | Continue reading
MIT grad students and their families joined project and construction staff to mark the collaborative effort to plan and create MIT’s newest graduate residence. | Continue reading
A new study of the microbiome finds intestinal bacterial interact much less often with viruses that trigger immunity updates than bacteria in the lab. | Continue reading
Philosopher Sam Berstler diagnoses the corrosive effects of not acknowledging troubling truths. | Continue reading
Professor Jessika Trancik’s course helps students understand energy levers for addressing climate change at the macro and micro scales. | Continue reading
Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts. | Continue reading
As part of a high-resolution biosensing device without wires, the antennas could help researchers decode intricate electrical signals sent by cells. | Continue reading
Inviting recent postdocs and sabbatical-eligible faculty to pursue their research at MIT, new programs envision eventually supporting 16 Israeli scholars on campus annually. | Continue reading
GMAF’s second international cohort will comprise up to 10 early- to mid-career Palestinian scholars for a two-year pilot fellowship program at MIT. | Continue reading
Corvus Robotics, founded by Mohammed Kabir ’21, is using drones that can navigate in GPS-denied environments to expedite inventory management. | Continue reading
Five MIT faculty and staff, along with five alumni, are honored for electrical engineering and computer science advances. | Continue reading
In math and in music, senior Holden Mui values interesting ideas, solving problems creatively, and finding meaning in their structures. | Continue reading
The neuroscientist turned entrepreneur will be hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and focus on advancing the intersection of behavioral science and AI across MIT. | Continue reading
MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials. | Continue reading
A small fleet of autonomous surface vessels forms a large sonar array for finding submerged objects. | Continue reading
At a symposium of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, six speakers described a diversity of recently launched studies aimed at improving understanding of the autistic brain. | Continue reading
The technique provides researchers with a powerful tool for controlling magnetism, and could help in designing faster, smaller, more energy-efficient memory chips. | Continue reading
An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware. | Continue reading
Research could help improve motor rehabilitation programs and assistive robot control. | Continue reading
How a love for math and access to MIT Open Learning’s online learning resources helped a Sudanese learner pursue a career in data science. | Continue reading
Industrial policy is said to have sparked huge growth in East Asia. Two MIT economists say the numbers tell a more complex story. | Continue reading
Junior Katie Spivakovsky describes her path through New Engineering Education Transformation to biomedical research and beyond. | Continue reading
Deborah Liverman, executive director of MIT Career Advising and Professional Development, offers a window into undergraduate and graduate students’ post-graduation paths. | Continue reading
The company has announced that it will build the first grid-scale fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia. | Continue reading
With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly. | Continue reading
Haystack Observatory researchers and citizen scientists team up to map the aurora. | Continue reading
Sensors developed by SMART researchers are capable of detecting pH changes in plant xylem enable farmers to detect drought stress up to 48 hours before visible physical symptoms manifest. | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT, NYU, and UCLA develop an approach to help evaluate whether large language models like GPT-4 are equitable enough to be clinically viable for mental health support. | Continue reading
MIT study confirms the climate impacts of hydrogen and recommends that leak prevention be a priority as the infrastructure for handling this clean-burning fuel is built. | Continue reading
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London. | Continue reading
Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, and economically thriving city spaces. | Continue reading
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI. | Continue reading
Ten objects on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries offer uncommon insights into the people and progress of MIT's cancer research community. | Continue reading
The “PRoC3S” method helps an LLM create a viable action plan by testing each step in a simulation. This strategy could eventually aid in-home robots to complete more ambiguous chore requests. | Continue reading
New products presented at the 2.009 prototype launch included a crash-detecting bicycle helmet, an augmented reality mask for divers, and a respirator for wildland firefighters. | Continue reading
The science communicator, video producer, and entrepreneur has built online communities of people who love diving into complex issues. | Continue reading
A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders’ motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices. | Continue reading
Laureates participated in various Nobel Week events, including lectures, a concert, a banquet, and the Nobel ceremony on Dec. 10. | Continue reading
Using high-powered lasers, this new method could help biologists study the body’s immune responses and develop new medicines. | Continue reading
Driven to solve hard problems, Associate Professor Zachary Hartwig is advancing a new approach to commercial fusion energy. | Continue reading
A new technique identifies and removes the training examples that contribute most to a machine-learning model’s failures. | Continue reading
Chronic diseases like diabetes are prevalent, costly, and challenging to treat. A common denominator driving them may be a promising new therapeutic target. | Continue reading
A detailed new look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists’ model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised. | Continue reading
Using LLMs to convert machine-learning explanations into readable narratives could help users make better decisions about when to trust a model. | Continue reading
MIT CSAIL director and EECS professor named a co-recipient of the honor for her robotics research, which has expanded our understanding of what a robot can be. | Continue reading
Longtime MIT faculty member used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. | Continue reading