SuperUROP, an undergraduate research program, is celebrating its 10th year of existence at MIT. Four alumni of the program, each with different career paths, reflect on the ways their participation in SuperUROP helped them develop as scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and sc … | Continue reading
As an engineer and EMT, MIT senior Abigail Schipper works to make medicine more accessible to all. “A device can’t work if the system around it is inhospitable,” she says. | Continue reading
The Feature Fields for Robotic Manipulation (F3RM) system, developed by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), enables robots to interpret open-ended text prompts in natural language, enhancing their ability to manipulate objects in real-world … | Continue reading
13 new Takeda Fellows for MIT's 2023-24 academic year will conduct pathbreaking research ranging from remote health monitoring for virtual clinical trials to ingestible devices for at-home, long-term diagnostics. | Continue reading
A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane’ people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and green into using separate words, which their native tongue does not do. | Continue reading
Partisan media might deepen political polarization, but we should measure people’s media habits more carefully before drawing conclusions, researchers say. | Continue reading
The “Bridging Talents and Opportunities" event held in October is part of an initiative led by MIT Latinx professors and students, aimed at providing talented Latino high school students from the greater Boston area and various Latin American countries a unique chance to exp … | Continue reading
A new grant program for MIT faculty and graduate students, called the Fast Forward Faculty Fund (F^4 for short), has awarded six grants to enable new work on climate change while strengthening collaboration on climate across the Institute. | Continue reading
Noya, a startup founded by MIT alumnus Josh Santos, has developed low-power, modular units that can be combined to create facilities for removing millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. | Continue reading
MIT graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is working on sustainable solutions in vehicle design, including a hydrogen-powered motorcycle. | Continue reading
More than 80 U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy cadets gathered at MIT and Lincoln Laboratory to kick off the 2024 SOCOM Ignite program. The program tasks military students from across the nation to innovate technology solutions for the U.S. Special Operations Command. | Continue reading
Professor Steven Barrett, an expert in the environmental impacts of aviation, has been named head of MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. | Continue reading
At the interface of water and air, light can, in certain conditions, bring about evaporation without the need for heat, according to an MIT study. | Continue reading
Twelfth grader Jessica Wan won the 15th Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) annual contest for female-identifying students, hosted by the MIT Department of Mathematics, for the third time. | Continue reading
New research aims to restore mobility for those who have lost muscle through disease or trauma. Actuating grafts seem to turn on cell signals related to the growth of new blood vessels and nerves. | Continue reading
An efficient new process can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity. | Continue reading
SecureLoop is an MIT-developed search engine that can identify an optimal design for a deep neural network accelerator that preserves data security while improving energy efficiency and boosting performance. This could enable device manufacturers to increase the speed of demandin … | Continue reading
New computational techniques, “HighLight” and “Tailors and Swiftiles,” could dramatically boost the speed and performance of high-performance computing applications like graph analytics or generative AI. The work, from MIT and NIVIDIA, aims to accelerate sparse tensors for AI mod … | Continue reading
The "Footwear Manifesto," a report on reducing waste in the footwear industry, kick-starts a collaborative discussion on the pathway to environmental sustainability. | Continue reading
In a Q&A, the MIT junior describes how all the pieces fell into place as he captured the Tetris world title. | Continue reading
The MIT School of Engineering’s Communication Lab provides peer coaching and other services to students and postdocs seeking to improve their communications skills. | Continue reading
Masonry experts including MIT faculty, alumni, and students played a key role the construction of “Lookout,” a new sculpture by Martin Puryear. The curving structure, made of rectilinear bricks, is now on display at the Storm King Art Center. | Continue reading
Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford, spoke about attacks on books at MIT's Hayden Library, inaugurating a new series of conversations about academic freedom and expression. | Continue reading
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), delivered the 2023 David J. Rose Lecture in Nuclear Technology at MIT, where he spoke about the IAEA’s unique role cutting across science, international security, and development, and what i … | Continue reading
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. | Continue reading
Adult listening abilities are critical to the ability to understand children’s early linguistic efforts, according to new research from MIT and Harvard University. | Continue reading
A new genetic model takes into account data from people across diverse ancestries. The polygenic model, developed at MIT, dramatically increased accuracy of predictions for many traits, especially for people from previously underrepresented populations. | Continue reading
FibeRobo is a liquid crystal elastomer fiber that can change its shape in response to thermal stimuli. Compatible with existing textile manufacturing machinery, it could be used to make morphing textiles, like a jacket that changes its insulating properties. | Continue reading
Eight teams of Lemelson-MIT High School InvenTeam Grant Initiative recipients will build a technological invention to solve a problem of their own choosing in their lives and/or communities. | Continue reading
MIT alumnus Morris Chang, founder and former longtime head of TSMC, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, spoke at MIT about the semiconductor industry, as part of the Manufacturing@MIT Distinguished Speaker Series. | Continue reading
Astronomers detected an extremely bright gamma-ray burst (GRB), the most powerful type of explosion known in the universe. It’s the second-brightest GRB so far identified, likely originating from two merging neutron stars. | Continue reading
Placing solutions in the cloud but learning with boots on the ground, GEAR Lab researchers build low-cost, solar-powered irrigation tools to make precision agriculture more accessible. | Continue reading
OctoStudio, a new coding app from the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, enables young people around the world to use mobile devices to express themselves creatively. | Continue reading
MIT Associate Professor Desiree Plata has a lifelong mission of making sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions. | Continue reading
MIT Policy Lab director Drew Story describes the lab as an impact magnifier for MIT researchers and explains how it works with researchers to develop policy impact plans, trains researchers how to be useful to policymakers, and provides modest funding to facilitate engagement. | Continue reading
At the 15th Kendall Square Association annual meeting, community members celebrated both new and old aspects of the neighborhood. | Continue reading
LIGO researchers at MIT, Caltech, and elsewhere report a significant advance in quantum squeezing, which allows them to measure undulations in space-time across the entire range of gravitational frequencies detected by LIGO. | Continue reading
Maria Jesus Saenz of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics is dedicated to advancing future leaders, and to supporting women, in supply chain management. She has been recognized for her professional achievements and contributions to the success of women in SCM. | Continue reading
The architecture departments at MIT and Tuskegee University continue to build and deepen a connection that dates back more than 100 years. | Continue reading
MIT engineers designed a sort of workout mat for cells that can help scientists zero in, at the microscopic level, on exercise’s mechanical effects. The results suggest regular mechanical exercise can help muscle fibers grow in the same direction. | Continue reading
In a new book, Richard “Dick” Larson draws on a lifelong commitment to STEM education at MIT to offer accessible advice on solving everyday problems and making smarter decisions. | Continue reading
New soft, implantable fibers can deliver light to major nerves through the body. Developed at MIT, they are an experimental tool for scientists to explore the causes and potential treatments for peripheral nerve disorders in animal models. | Continue reading
An MIT workshop aimed to help nuclear engineers, policymakers, and academics learn about approaches to communicating accurate information about the management of nuclear waste, in hopes of allaying fears and encouraging support for the development of new, safer nuclear power plan … | Continue reading
A new study reveals the pitfalls of deep generative models when they are tasked with solving engineering design problems. The MIT researchers say if mechanical engineers want help from AI for novel ideas and designs, they’ll have to refocus those models beyond “statistical simila … | Continue reading
StructCode, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, encodes machine-readable data in laser-cut objects by modifying their fabrication features. | Continue reading
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, a leading expert on economic growth and the uses and risks of automation, has been awarded the WZB Berlin Science Center's A.SK Award for fundamental contributions to labor economics, macroeconomics, and political economy. | Continue reading
When stacked in five layers in a rhombohedral pattern, graphene takes on a rare “multiferroic” state, exhibiting both unconventional magnetism and an exotic electronic behavior known as ferro-valleytricity. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Edward Crawley reflects on five decades at the Institute and beyond. From teaching and research to entrepreneurship, government and industry collaborations, and launching a new university, Crawley has done it all — and shows no signs of slowing down. | Continue reading