The MIT professor of economics studies social mobility and examines which policies can give people a chance to thrive. | Continue reading
MIT physicists coaxed superconductivity and more from quasicrystals. The work introduces a flexible platform for making the enigmatic materials that could jump-start interest in the field and allow new studies of exotic phenomena. | Continue reading
Scientists have invested decades in piecing together how our vision is so good at recognizing what’s familiar. A new study overcomes an apparent discrepancy in data to reveal a new insight into how it works. | Continue reading
Over 200 social impact leaders gathered to hear the 2023 Solver teams pitch their solutions to address global issues at the Solve Challenge Finals, hosted by MIT Solve. | Continue reading
The Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee repurposes items for good causes — and discovers a few hidden gems — following a burst pipe in W20. | Continue reading
MIT researchers report children who used a mindfulness app at home for 40 days showed improvements in several aspects of mental health, including reductions in stress and negative emotions such as loneliness and fear. | Continue reading
NASA’s Psyche mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own. Its principal investigator is MIT alumna and former professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who leads a team including longtime … | Continue reading
Five MIT faculty, along with seven additional affiliates, are honored for outstanding contributions to medical research. | Continue reading
MIT researchers show how topology can help create magnetism at higher temperatures. | Continue reading
The MIT’s Writers’ Group has helped community members channel their creative energies since 2002. | Continue reading
MIT scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability. | Continue reading
The Institute’s pooled investments lost 2.9 percent last year; endowment stands at $23.5 billion. | Continue reading
The Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET) program uses an MIT-inspired curriculum and MISTI student instructors to help young Palestinians and Israelis find common ground. | Continue reading
Through community-based research with organizations that work to “hoʻomomona hou i ka ʻāina,” or “restore that which feeds back to abundance,” PhD student Aja Grande has embarked on a healing journey of her own. | Continue reading
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Supercomputing Center has developed tools to reduce data center energy use by power-capping hardware and by improving the efficiency with which models are trained — in some cases, their techniques reduce energy use by 80%. | Continue reading
The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship program welcomed its 2023-24 class. The purpose of the program is to enhance diversity in SHASS and to provide fellows with additional professional support and mentoring as they enter the fie … | Continue reading
“Making Art for Scientists: Materials, Processes and Information Relay” is a summer MIT course with instructor and artist Timothy Lee that invites scientists and engineers to explore new ways to visualize and represent their research. | Continue reading
Photo essay: How MIT professor Moungi Bawendi spent his day after learning he’d won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | Continue reading
Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at MIT, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2023. He will share the prize with Louis Brus of Columbia University and Alexei Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology. | Continue reading
MIT researchers developed a touch sensor for a robotic hand that is long and curved, like a human finger, and provides sensing along its entire length. This could enable a robot to grasp large or heavy objects more like a human would, with its entire fingers, while still being ab … | Continue reading
In C. elegans worms, a single neuron named HSN uses multiple chemicals and connections to orchestrate egg-laying and locomotion over the course of several minutes, an MIT study finds. | Continue reading
The Empowering the Teachers program brings talented Nigerian postdocs to MIT for a semester-long immersive experience, then sends them back out into the field to teach, research, and grow into influential leaders in Nigerian higher education. | Continue reading
MIT CSAIL's Air-Guardian merges human and AI attention in aviation, enhancing safety by intervening during lapses in human pilot focus. Using eye-tracking, saliency maps, and liquid neural networks, the approach ensures a harmonious partnership between pilots and AI, aiming … | Continue reading
MIT Digital Learning Lab is a joint program between MIT Open Learning and MIT’s academic departments for digital learning innovations. Staff promote the latest findings in the learning sciences and educational technologies to develop and update courses on campus and online. | Continue reading
Open-source software written by MIT Morningside Academy of Design Fellow Jonathan Zong and others in the MIT Visualization Group improves accessibility of online graphics for blind users. | Continue reading
MIT political science PhD candidate Elizabeth Parker-Magyar locates civil society in Jordan in an unexpected setting: public-sector work spaces. | Continue reading
Priming users about the motives of an AI agent had a significant impact on their perceptions of that agent and how effective they believed this AI mental health companion was, according to an MIT study. Not only did priming change users’ perceptions, it also changed how they inte … | Continue reading
A new machine-learning approach helps scientists more efficiently identify the optimal intervention to achieve a certain outcome in a complex system, such as genome regulation, requiring far fewer experimental trials than other methods. | Continue reading
Through his leadership and vision, MIT postdoc and new U.S. citizen Ubadah Sabbagh aims to improve the scientific process in the United States and abroad. | Continue reading
Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants were awarded to bold research projects by MIT faculty Kaitlyn Becker, Canan Dagdeviren, and Luca Daniel across diverse areas of study including engineering, animal behavior, and human movement. | Continue reading
J-PAL North America and Results for America announced 18 new collaborations with state and local governments through their Leveraging Evidence and Evaluation for Equitable Recovery (LEVER) programming. | Continue reading
The MIT spinout Kronos Bio, founded by Associate Professor Angela Koehler, studies the complex signaling networks of cancer cells to find new ways to stop their growth. | Continue reading
In campus talk, Daron Acemoglu offers vision of “machine usefulness,” rather than autonomous “intelligence,” to help workers and spread prosperity. | Continue reading
Using more than 2 million cells from over 400 postmortem brain samples, MIT researchers performed the largest-scale analysis of the genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic changes that occur in every cell type in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. | Continue reading
Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with MIT and Harvard, demonstrated the first quantum interaction with a nanophotonic quantum memory across a deployed telecommunications fiber — a foundational step toward scalable quantum networking. | Continue reading
A new production of Tod Machover's “VALIS,” an innovative opera based on the Philip K. Dick novel, was directed by Jay Scheib and featured baritone Davóne Tines and mezzo-soprano Anaïs Reno. Co-presented by MIT Media Lab / MIT Theater Arts / Opera Of The Future. | Continue reading
MIT's 2023-24 cohort of MLK Visiting Scholars comprises Tawanna Dillahunt, Kwabena Donkor, Denise Frazier, Wasalu Jaco, Morgane Konig, Angelica Mayolo-Obregon, Jean-Luc Pierite, Christine Taylor-Butler, and Angelino Viceisza. | Continue reading
A new solar desalination system takes in saltwater and heats it with natural sunlight. The system flushes out accumulated salt, so replacement parts aren’t needed often, meaning the system could potentially produce drinking water that is cheaper than tap water. | Continue reading
A new study explores how effective current federal decarbonization policies are in reducing U.S. racial and economic disparities in PM2.5 exposure, and what changes will be needed to improve their performance. | Continue reading
Drawing inspiration from physics, a new Poisson Flow Generative Model ++ (PFGM++) integrates diffusion and Poisson Flow principles, outperforming existing diffusion models in advanced image generation. This breakthrough in generative AI taps into both the complexity of electric f … | Continue reading
MIT linguistics students and faculty have catalogued the emerging use of “whom of which” in English, while examining what this new construction tells us about syntax. | Continue reading
MIT professors Leonid Mirny, Davesh Maulik, Aram Harrow, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan have been selected to receive the 2023 Simons Investigator Awards from the Simons Foundation in support of their work on fundamental theoretical questions of math, phy … | Continue reading
MIT political scientist Taylor Fravel examines the potential and limitations of a bigger BRICS group of countries — and what it means for the U.S. | Continue reading
A new study finds complexin is a key protein for regulating neural communication. New research finds neurons stochastically generated up to eight different versions of complexin release, which could vary how they communicate with other cells. | Continue reading
Sixteen new faculty joined the MIT departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics in 2023 as professors and scientists. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Emerita Evelyn Fox Keller, a groundbreaking philosopher and historian of science who helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, has died at age 87. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Richard Binzel describes how asteroid dirt and dust delivered by OSIRIS-Rex, with help from MIT students and the REXIS instrument, may reveal clues to the solar system’s origins. | Continue reading
MIT researchers developed a superconducting qubit architecture that can perform operations between qubits with much higher accuracy than scientists have yet been able to achieve. Utilizing a superconducting qubit called fluxonium, the architecture is scalable and could be used to … | Continue reading