MIT has appointed Michael John Gorman the Mark R. Epstein (Class of 1963) Director of the recently re-imagined MIT Museum, effective summer 2024. | Continue reading
The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering developed a professional education course for the Australian Submarine Agency to support and train executives from the Australian Navy. The three-week course covered a broad range of topics, from the basics of nuclear reactor … | Continue reading
A new comic takes readers through a history of infectious disease discoveries. “A Paradigm Shift in Infectious Disease” follows MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba and artist Argha Manna, who are both protagonists and creators of the project. | Continue reading
The MIT School of Science awarded professors Roger Levy, Pulin Li, and David McGee teaching prizes for exceptional undergraduate and graduate instruction. | Continue reading
The MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool (MOCAT) offers a unique open-source solution for modeling space debris and assessing collision risks in low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Biology graduate student Juana De La O is building connections through her thesis work in mouse development and her passion for cooking and baking. | Continue reading
MIT Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Practice Richard M. Wiesman died Sunday, Jan. 7. He was 69. Wiesman taught and supervised research in design, product development, robotics, controls, and manufacturing, and served as co-director of MIT’s Field and Space Robotics Labora … | Continue reading
At the MIT Blueprint Labs Preschool Research Convening, practitioners presented studies on early childhood education and discussed future directions. | Continue reading
A new method can track changes in live cell gene expression over extended periods of time. Based on Raman spectroscopy, the method doesn’t harm cells and can be performed repeatedly. | Continue reading
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team is building a hydrogen-powered electric motorcycle, using a fuel cell system, to serve as a testbed for new hydrogen-based transportation. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Keeril Makan describes the MIT Music Building currently under construction that will feature rehearsal and performance spaces, a recording studio, classrooms, and music technology laboratories. | Continue reading
MIT chemical engineers create a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint. | Continue reading
International energy company becomes sustaining member of industry group. | Continue reading
MIT's HiP system helps robots complete long-horizon goals using three foundation models: a large language model, a video diffusion model, and an egocentric action model. Iterative refinement improves the plan at each step for household and manufacturing tasks. | Continue reading
The MIT WORLDING initiative matched world-class climate story teams working in extended reality with relevant labs and researchers across MIT. | Continue reading
MIT researchers propose a "physics-enhanced deep-surrogate" (PEDS) method for developing data-driven surrogate models for complex physical systems in such fields as mechanics, optics, thermal transport, fluid dynamics, physical chemistry, and climate modeling. | Continue reading
An MIT study finds chiral structures, with mirror-image configurations, can emerge from nonchiral systems, suggesting new ways to engineer these materials. | Continue reading
Using a new MIT technology, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling a sensor and then taking a urine test that reveals whether a tumor is present. | Continue reading
A new MIT study identifies six systemic factors contributing to patient hazards in laboratory diagnostics tests. | Continue reading
The MIT Student Research Program pairs underrepresented students with opportunities to examine inequity through the IDSS Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism. | Continue reading
MIT researchers 3D printed a mini quadrupole mass filter, a key component of a mass spectrometer, that performs as well as some commercial-grade devices. It can be fabricated in hours for a few dollars and is one step toward producing a portable mass spectrometer that could enabl … | Continue reading
MIT Koch Institute researchers Daniel Anderson and Ana Jaklenec, plus 11 MIT alumni, are honored for inventions that have made a tangible impact on society. | Continue reading
FIND (function interpretation and description) is a new technique for evaluating automated interpretability methods. Developed at MIT, the system uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks. | Continue reading
Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to an MIT study that employed an artificial language network. | Continue reading
MIT senior Kwesi Afrifa believes technology has a unique power to accelerate urban development and empower citizens. With a major in urban planning and computer science, he seeks to create cultural hubs that are inviting to everyone. | Continue reading
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, a doctoral candidate in media arts and sciences and a MAD Design Fellow, researches how technology and tradition intersect in rural spaces, particularly in Colombia. | Continue reading
In profile: Associate Professor David Hsu examines how cities, states, and local governments can fight climate change — and how MIT can do the same. | Continue reading
A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres, which the James Webb Space Telescope can detect, could be a signature of habitability. | Continue reading
New research shows relatively little impact from a nutritional program intended to reduce blood sugar levels among diabetics. | Continue reading
MIT engineers designed an ingestible capsule that vibrates within the stomach, creating an illusory sense of fullness and reducing appetite. The pill could offer a minimally invasive, cost-effective way to treat obesity. | Continue reading
MIT graduate students Irene Terpstra and Rujul Gandhi in the 6A Program explore using AI to design new integrated circuits and make language understandable to robots. | Continue reading
Professor of the practice and innovative scholar of urban design and dynamics will oversee leading global showcase for architectural work. | Continue reading
Roboert M. Solow, a groundbreaking MIT economist and Nobel laureate, has died at age 99, leaving behind a rich legacy of scholarship and teaching. | Continue reading
A review of top MIT community stories of 2023 includes a presidential inauguration, international accolades for faculty and students, “Dialogues Across Difference,” new and refreshed community spaces, and more. | Continue reading
Attended by more than 500 students, faculty, staff, and alumni, with more sessions planned, the course offers a jumping off point for constructive discussions. | Continue reading
MIT faculty, researchers, students, and staff made headlines in 2023, making key research advances including detecting a dying star swallowing a planet, exploring the frontiers of AI, creating new clean energy solutions, inventing tools aimed at earlier detection and diagnosis of … | Continue reading
MIT News’ top research stories of 2023 include the invention of a cheaper water desalination device, a wearable ultrasound scanner, the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet, and more. | Continue reading
Paul Parravano, former co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations who worked to build enduring MIT connections with elected officials and the local community, died at 71. | Continue reading
Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers discovered a class of compounds that can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. | Continue reading
MIT senior and physics major Gosha Geogdzhayev works to develop “emulator” models that can learn from large-scale global climate models to answer more specialized questions about the impacts of climate change. | Continue reading
A new technique gives animators the flexibility to see how different mathematical functions deform complex 2D or 3D characters, and lets them choose the function that best fits their vision for the animation. | Continue reading
Asia Allison, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and a graduate student in MIT's Naval Construction and Engineering program, is developing as a technical leader in the Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program. | Continue reading
Colon cancer screening is more effective than previously realized, according to a study by Josh Angrist and Peter Hull that looks at data from five trials. | Continue reading
At a White House Demo Day, a team from the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine at the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research showcased nanotechnologies designed to improve the detection and treatment of cancer and other diseases. | Continue reading
In mice and human cell cultures, MIT researchers showed that lipid nanoparticles can deliver a potential RNA therapy for inflammation in the brain, a prominent symptom in Alzheimer’s disease. | Continue reading
After learner Diogo da Silva Branco Magalhães completed the MITx MicroMasters program in Statistics and Data Science, he was able to pursue his master’s degree at Northwestern University. | Continue reading
A novel dataset metric, minimum viewing time (MVT), gauges image recognition complexity for AI systems by measuring the time needed for accurate human identification. | Continue reading
Philip Erickson has been named the new director of MIT Haystack Observatory. In leading the radio science observatory in Westford, Mass., Erickson succeeds longtime director Colin Lonsdale, who plans to step down. | Continue reading