MIT political science and physics major Leela Fredlund wants to ensure fairness and justice prevail in humanity’s leap to space. | Continue reading
The MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship provides support to journalists dedicated to connecting local stories to broader climate contexts. | Continue reading
Wildfires in Southeast Asia significantly affect the moods of people in many countries, with people becoming more upset if fires originate outside their own country, according to a study analyzing social media activity. | Continue reading
Researchers developed a technique that enables an AI chatbot like ChatGPT to conduct a day-long conversation with a human collaborator without slowing down or crashing, no matter how much text the conversation involves. | Continue reading
Marc Baldo, Jacopo Buongiorno, and Hsiao-hua Burke, along with 13 additional MIT alumni, are honored for significant contributions to engineering research, practice, and education. | Continue reading
Meet MIT Technical Instructor Pat McAtamney, who has both encouraged a broad range of students to take part in the Institute's highly successful EV and solar car teams and also served as a valuable part of their engineering education. | Continue reading
Researchers find deforestation accounts for about 10 percent of global human-made mercury emissions. While it cannot be the only solution, they suggest reforestation could increase global mercury uptake by about 5 percent. | Continue reading
Two professors and three additional alumni recognized for “dreaming up solutions to global challenges — advancing health, sustainability, and human connection.” | Continue reading
A small ultrasound sticker, worn on the skin, can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body. The MIT-developed sensor could detect signs of disease such as liver and kidney failure, and the progression of solid tumors. | Continue reading
MIT junior Justin "Fractal" Yu describes his recent success crashing "Tetris" — and the behind-the-scenes race that led him and player Willis "BlueScuti" Gibson to record achievements. | Continue reading
Rotor Technologies, an autonomous helicopter startup led by MIT alumni, retrofits existing helicopters with sensors and software to remove the pilot from some of the most dangerous types of flights. | Continue reading
Longtime physician Annie Liau reflects on her journey from Thailand to MIT, and her nearly four decades of service at MIT Health. | Continue reading
MIT assistant professor and saxophonist Miguel Zenón won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. He and pianist Luis Perdomo won for their album "El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2." | Continue reading
For the first time, MIT physicists have captured direct images of “second sound,” the movement of heat sloshing back and forth within a superfluid. The results will expand scientists’ understanding of heat flow in superconductors and neutron stars. | Continue reading
President Kornbluth introduces a major campus-wide effort to solve critical climate problems with all possible speed. | Continue reading
The Climate Project at MIT, a major campus-wide effort, includes new arrangements for promoting cross-Institute collaborations and new mechanisms for engaging with outside partners to speed the development and implementation of climate solutions. | Continue reading
At the ASM Materials Education Foundation’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Competition, seniors Louise Anderfaas and Darsh Grewal design a super-strong aluminum plate for applications such as planes and cars. | Continue reading
A new technique can control a larger number of microscopic defects in a diamond. These defects can be used as qubits for quantum sensing applications, and being able to control a greater number of qubits would improve the sensitivity of such devices. | Continue reading
MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee and MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Visiting Artist Sarnath Banerjee collaborated on a pair of short films addressing an environmental crisis facing present-day India by tracing its origins back through the centuries. | Continue reading
A tiny microfluidic device can improve cell therapy techniques for spinal cord injury patients. The device can remove a large percentage of stem cells that have not yet fully become spinal cord cells, which could potentially form tumors after being transplanted into a patient. | Continue reading
MIT researchers demonstrate the ability to control the dancing patterns of tiny magnetic bits in a nonlinear manner, akin to how skilled guitar players manipulate guitar strings. | Continue reading
Students, faculty, and staff from MIT attended the COP28 U.N. climate change conference in Dubai. At a forum hosted by the MIT Center for International Studies in January, MIT community members shared their experiences and insights from the conference. | Continue reading
MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced six fellows for the spring 2024 semester to conduct research in the areas of AI, machine learning, and data science with the aim of commercializing their innovations. | Continue reading
Me-Shirts, winner of the annual MIT materials science competition, has developed a biodegradable material than can be easily added and removed from shirts. | Continue reading
MIT researchers have been awarded $65.6 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop ingestible devices that could be used to treat diabetes, obesity, and other conditions through oral delivery of mRNA. | Continue reading
A new map shows which U.S. counties have the highest concentration of jobs that could be affected by the transition to renewable energy. The work was developed by Chris Knittel and Kailin Graham of MIT. | Continue reading
Encoding symmetries into neural networks can significantly reduce data complexity, leading to faster and more efficient learning processes, according to MIT researchers leveraging the century-old Weyl's law. | Continue reading
Doctors do not perform as well diagnosing skin diseases when the patient has darker skin, according to an MIT study. The researchers found assistance from artificial intelligence could improve doctors’ accuracy, but those improvements were greater in patients with lighter skin. | Continue reading
New research could help policymakers avoid the “winner’s curse,” in which social programs that perform well in studies may not do as well when deployed later on. | Continue reading
Since 1988, Hiroko Matsuyama, a master instructor of the Ohara School of Ikebana, has worked with MIT students on the basics of the ancient art of Japanese flower arrangement. | Continue reading
MIT historian of science Robin Scheffler studies the progress of biomedical research in the U.S., including in Kendall Square and greater Boston. | Continue reading
Two projects — the Global Mediations Lab and the MIT Swahili Studies Initiative — have won Humanities Awards. The pilot program aims to support humanities-focused, collaborative projects that can have a broad impact within SHASS or MIT, or have a substantial impact on undergradua … | Continue reading
For 14 years, Crayton has strengthened programs and created new ones that foster academic success, provide mentoring, prepare students for careers or graduate school, and build community. | Continue reading
MIT alumnus Noubar Afeyan, an inventor and parallel entrepreneur with a penchant for bold ideas, will deliver the address at the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 30. | Continue reading
The MIT Video Game Orchestra combines the beauty and skill of orchestral music with the fun of a student group. | Continue reading
Igor Paul, MIT professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, died on Dec. 17, 2023, at age 87. Paul helped develop MechE's design and manufacturing curriculum and contributed to artificial joints as well as to NASA inertial guidance systems. | Continue reading
Nine open-access books cross 10,000 reads threshold, bringing total for Direct to Open titles to almost 425,000. | Continue reading
The MIT Knight Science Journalism Program announces a new one-semester Fellowship for Advancing Science Journalism in Africa and the Middle East, to start this year. | Continue reading
MIT Whitehead Institute member Jonathan Weissman and collaborators developed a tool to reconstruct the family trees and individual states of cells in humans, revealing how blood cell production changes in old age. | Continue reading
Using a microscopy technique known as expansion-mediated protein decrowding, researchers imaged human brain tissue in greater detail than ever before, revealing cells and structures that were not previously visible. They discovered some brain tumors called gliomas contain many mo … | Continue reading
David Friedrich, senior associate dean for housing and residential services, discusses the new Graduate Junction residence and the unique partnership with American Campus Communities. | Continue reading
Team-based targeted projects, multi-mentor fellowships ensure that scientists studying social cognition, behavior, and autism integrate multiple perspectives and approaches to pressing questions. | Continue reading
The National Academy of Sciences awarded MIT professor emerita and pioneering molecular biologist Nancy Hopkins with the 2024 Public Welfare Medal for leadership in advancing women’s representation in science. | Continue reading
At the MIT Quantitative Methods Workshop, a weeklong introduction to how computational and mathematical techniques can be applied to neuroscience and biology research, students gain new skills and make new connections. | Continue reading
The advanced fabrication tools will enable the next generation of microelectronics and microsystems while bridging the gap from the lab to commercialization. | Continue reading
State-of-the-art toolset will bridge academic innovations and industry pathways to scale for semiconductors, microelectronics, and other critical technologies. | Continue reading
Using a DNA-based scaffold carrying viral proteins, researchers created a vaccine that provokes a strong antibody response against SARS-CoV-2. | Continue reading
Bryan Reimer, a researcher at the MIT AgeLab, joins the U.S. Department of Transportation's Transforming Transportation Advisory Committee to help ensure that transportation's future is safe, efficient, sustainable, equitable, and transformative. | Continue reading