The Lemelson-MIT/My Brother’s Keeper Cambridge program equipped local Cambridge, Massachusetts, residents with skills around entrepreneurship and invention. | Continue reading
Alexander Andonian, Daniel Magley, and Madhumitha Ravichandra are the fall 2023 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows who will conduct research in the areas of AI, machine learning, and data science with the aim of commercializing their innovations. | Continue reading
MIT professor combines nanoscience and viruses to develop solutions in energy, environment, and medicine. | Continue reading
In the largest study of deep neural networks trained to perform auditory tasks, MIT researchers found most models generate internal representations that share properties of representations seen in the human brain when people are listening to the same sounds. | Continue reading
A new analysis of how peat formations develop makes it possible to evaluate their carbon content and dynamics from simple elevation measurements. The method should enable more precise and accurate assessments of the amount of carbon that would be released by any proposed draining … | Continue reading
A new AI technique digitalizes a photolithography system, capturing tiny deviations the system introduces during manufacturing. This method could enable academics and engineers to boost the accuracy and efficiency of electronics. | Continue reading
Popular Science named Ronald Garcia Ruiz, an MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science researcher and assistant professor of physics as one of 2023's "Brilliant 10," recognizing his contributions to experimental physics. | Continue reading
With the launch of Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade, the Institute committed to decarbonize the campus by 2050 with a focus on heating, cooling, and electricity, as well as campus food, waste, and water systems. | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg returns from his ISS mission to his alma mater, MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to visit with current students and old friends. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Justin Solomon applies modern geometric techniques to solve difficult problems in a variety of areas, such as developing machine learning models that perform more accurately on target datasets and helping autonomous vehicles identify pedestrians. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Darrell Irvine describes a novel vaccine adjuvant: a nanoparticle that can help stimulate the immune system to generate a stronger response to a vaccine. An HIV vaccine with this adjuvant will be tested in clinical trials. | Continue reading
In a study that could help fill some holes in quantum theory, the team recreated a “quantum bomb tester” in a classical droplet test. | Continue reading
The Speranza system enhances software repository security by using zero-knowledge identity co-commitments and automated certificate authorities, ensuring software authenticity while maintaining developer anonymity. Its practical implementation, efficient operation, and minimal in … | Continue reading
During its Generative AI Week in November 2023, MIT hosted symposia and events aimed at examining the implications and possibilities of generative artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
MIT seniors Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li are recipients of this year's prestigious Marshall Scholarship program. They will pursue graduate studies in the UK. | Continue reading
MIT scholars have released a set of policy papers about the governance of artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
A fabrication process can produce self-heating microfluidic devices in one step using a multimaterial 3D printer. These devices, which can be made rapidly and cheaply in large numbers, could help clinicians in remote parts of the world detect diseases without expensive lab equipm … | Continue reading
MIT's new Breakerspace is a dynamic hub where students engage in hands-on materials exploration, using advanced microscopy for in-depth characterization. | Continue reading
MIT alumna Miranda McClellan was named a 2025 Schwarzman Scholar. The computer scientist will pursue a one-year degree in global affairs and leadership training at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. | Continue reading
A new technique integrates 2D materials into devices and systems in a single step, while keeping surfaces and interfaces free from defects. This method could enable devices like those in computer chips to achieve better performance than those made with conventional fabrication te … | Continue reading
A new onboarding technique from MIT can help humans collaborate more effectively with AI assistants. The process finds situations where the human either over-trusts or under-trusts the AI, describing these as natural language rules, and creates training exercises based on these r … | Continue reading
MIT alumnus Hong Ru, who graduated in 2010 with the Master of Finance program’s inaugural class with his wife, Juno Wei Chen, returned to MIT Sloan to teach the next generation of students. | Continue reading
Two MIT students, Anna Kwon and Nicole Doering, have been awarded Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The students were recognized for their sustainability work as summer interns as part of the PKG Center for Public Service’s Social … | Continue reading
MIT researchers devised a machine-learning-based method to investigate how materials behave at their surfaces. The approach could help in developing compounds or alloys for use as catalysts, semiconductors, or battery components. | Continue reading
The 2023 Global Change Outlook presents the MIT Joint Program’s latest projections for the future of the Earth’s energy, food, water and climate systems under existing global climate policies and those aligned with capping global warming at 1.5 C. | Continue reading
During 18 years of leadership, Evans established new R&D mission areas, strengthened ties to the MIT community, and increased inclusion and education efforts | Continue reading
MIT chemists have now come up with a way to make molecules known as acenes more stable, allowing them to synthesize acenes of varying lengths. Using their new approach, they were able to build molecules that emit red, orange, yellow, green, or blue light, which could make acenes … | Continue reading
Through volunteer work and other activities, the Women’s League has played an impactful role at MIT for more than a century. | Continue reading
Researchers from MIT and ETZ Zurich have developed a new, data-driven machine-learning technique that speeds up software programs used to solve complex optimization problems that can have millions of potential solutions. Their approach could be applied to many complex logistical … | Continue reading
New MIT research shows that human microglia with the R47H/+ mutation in the TREM2 protein exhibit several deficits related to Alzheimer’s pathology. Mutant microglia are prone to inflammation, yet are worse at responding to neuron injury and less able to clear harmful debris, inc … | Continue reading
On Nov. 14, MIT President Sally Kornbluth launched a community-driven initiative, Standing Together Against Hate (STAH). Chancellor Melissa Nobles spoke with MIT News about the early efforts she is seeing — both at the grassroots level and institutionally — in support of this eff … | Continue reading
In her new book, “Seizing Control,” MITES grant writer Laura Beretsky details her experience with epilepsy and offers lessons for creating a welcoming work environment for people with disabilities. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods. | Continue reading
MIT faculty researchers explain glycoscience, a rapidly growing field broadly applicable to not just to biology and chemistry but also to bioengineering, medicine, materials science, and more. | Continue reading
The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature brings six centuries of classic texts to the world, in bilingual editions. | Continue reading
An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years. | Continue reading
Researchers from MIT and Mass General Brigham developed a gel-based platform for local delivery of drugs into tumors that promises to help treat metastatic cancer. | Continue reading
MIT Institute Professor Phillip Sharp and MIT Press Director Amy Brand discuss a white paper on the future of open-access publishing in academia. | Continue reading
Clocks, lasers, and other oscillators could be tuned to super-quantum precision, allowing researchers to track infinitesimally small differences in time, according to a new MIT study. | Continue reading
As part of MIT’s Generative AI Week, artist Refik Anadol and MIT faculty members shared their work using the new technology in art, finance, health care, transportation, and other industries. | Continue reading
MIT faculty members, including keynote speaker Rodney Brooks, discussed the power and potential pitfalls of generative AI tools like ChatGPT at the “Generative AI: Shaping the Future” Symposium, the kickoff event of the Institute’s Generative AI Week. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Elly Nedivi has been honored with the Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award for her ongoing work to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms that enable the brain to adapt to experience. | Continue reading
The MIT AgeLab awarded five OMEGA scholarships to high school students across the United States who led or developed intergenerational programs — initiatives designed to bring together younger and older people — in their communities. | Continue reading
Morgane König is a postdoc in theoretical cosmology at MIT and at Dartmouth College and is a 2023 MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. Her research focuses on the study of the universe as a whole, from the era of inflation to the present. | Continue reading
Under the aegis of the Science Policy Initiative, 22 MIT students visited federal agencies including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Department of Energy, NASA, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health, the EPA, and the NSF to discuss science policy issue … | Continue reading
A new method allows scientists to label and image many different molecules at once within a living cell. The technique, developed at MIT, relies on “switchable fluorophores” — fluorescent proteins that turn on and off at a specific rate. | Continue reading
The MIT Game Lab helps students think critically about the games they’ve often been playing for years, and prepares them to engage in thoughtful design practices themselves. | Continue reading
The Nano Summit highlights nanoscale research across multiple disciplines at MIT. | Continue reading