The advance could help make 3D printing more sustainable, enabling printing with renewable or recyclable materials that are difficult to characterize. | Continue reading
The longtime academic leader of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology reflects on her time spent guiding students at the intersection of medicine and engineering. | Continue reading
An MRI method purported to detect neurons’ rapid impulses produces its own misleading signals instead, an MIT study finds. | Continue reading
MIT scientists have tackled key obstacles to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for the next generation of energy-efficient computers. | Continue reading
In a first, four different technologies will monitor changes in the upper atmosphere, locally and across the continent, as the sun’s radiation dips. | Continue reading
Brian Mernoff of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics offers best practices to get the most out of your eclipse experience. | Continue reading
The low-cost hardware outperforms state-of-the-art versions and could someday enable an affordable, in-home device for health monitoring. | Continue reading
For more than 50 years, the MIT Music Theater Guild has put on epic performances that involve students from every part of campus. | Continue reading
Seron Electronics, founded by Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17, makes research equipment with applications including microelectronics, clean energy, optics, biomedicine, and beyond. | Continue reading
Study shows neutrons can bind to nanoscale atomic clusters known as quantum dots. The finding may provide insights into material properties and quantum effects. | Continue reading
MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain. | Continue reading
A new method to measure homophily in large group interactions offers insights into how groups might interact in the future. | Continue reading
Made possible by an ongoing fundraising initiative, the new program prioritizes building resources for economics faculty research. | Continue reading
PhD student Lavender Tessmer applies computation to create textiles that behave in novel ways. | Continue reading
Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation. | Continue reading
The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost. | Continue reading
MIT CSAIL researchers are using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language generation in language models. | Continue reading
New research by a team of MIT engineers offers a guide for fine-tuning specific material properties. | Continue reading
Amplified Industries, founded by Sebastien Mannai SM ’14, PhD ’18, helps oil field operators eliminate spills and stop methane leaks. | Continue reading
Professor Rafael Jaramillo relishes the challenge of developing new, environmentally beneficial semiconductor materials. | Continue reading
Global warming potential of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is more than 24,000 times that of carbon dioxide. | Continue reading
International technology company becomes sustaining member of industry group. | Continue reading
The 16 finalists — representing every school at MIT — will explore generative AI’s impact on privacy, art, drug discovery, aging, and more. | Continue reading
Study shows perceptions of “good” schools are heavily dependent on the preparation of the students entering them. | Continue reading
The junior, who is majoring in computer science and molecular biology, wants to “make it a norm to lift others as I continue to climb.” | Continue reading
Professor of applied economics Catherine Wolfram balances global energy demands and the pressing need for decarbonization. | Continue reading
Analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas. | Continue reading
A catalyst tethered by DNA boosts the efficiency of the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO, a building block for many chemical compounds. | Continue reading
Screen-reader users can upload a dataset and create customized data representations that combine visualization, textual description, and sonification. | Continue reading
MIT spinout Strand Therapeutics has developed a new class of mRNA molecules that can sense where they are in the body, for more targeted and powerful treatments. | Continue reading
Itz’at STEAM Academy, an effort between MIT and the Belize Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology, pushes the boundaries of education through innovative methodologies. | Continue reading
The new approach “nudges” existing climate simulations closer to future reality. | Continue reading
The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate more than 95 percent of incoming wave energy using a small fraction of the material normally needed. | Continue reading
The behavior of granular materials has been difficult to visualize, but a new method reveals their internal forces in 3D detail. | Continue reading
With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores. | Continue reading
Researchers demonstrate a technique that can be used to probe a model to see what it knows about new subjects. | Continue reading
Single-cell gene expression patterns in the brain, and evidence from follow-up experiments, reveal many shared cellular and molecular similarities that could be targeted for potential treatment. | Continue reading
Global Semiconductor Alliance’s Women’s Leadership Initiative provides inspiration and guidance to MIT students. | Continue reading
In order to recycle construction materials, keep them close to home, a new study of Amsterdam suggests. | Continue reading
This measure, developed by MIT researchers, reflects direct effects on people’s quality of life — and reveals significant global disparities. | Continue reading
In class 4.500 (Design Computation), Professor Larry Sass teaches the thoughtful and experimental process of design through the familiar idea of a chair, while exploring “foundational technologies.” | Continue reading
Extractive industries threaten water, glaciers, and livelihoods, but new research offers hope. | Continue reading
An analysis of the 2011 nuclear accident reveals a need for more preparation, training, and protocols for responding to low-probability accidents. | Continue reading
Financial aid increased, more than offsetting a 3.75 percent increase in tuition. | Continue reading
Novel method makes tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E-3 faster by simplifying the image-generating process to a single step while maintaining or enhancing image quality. | Continue reading
While working to nurture scientific talent in his native Nigeria, Assistant Professor Ericmoore Jossou is setting his sights on using materials science and computation to design robust nuclear components. | Continue reading
Results suggest the clouds of Venus could be hospitable for some forms of life. | Continue reading
A collaboration between ACT and MIT.nano, the class 4.373/4.374 (Creating Art, Thinking Science) asks what it really takes to cultivate dialogue between disciplines. | Continue reading