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
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is developing a roadmap to achieve unified modernization across the Southwestern U.S. military test and training ranges. The goal is to create a more network-centric infrastructure, streamlining government system acquisitions and facilitating connectivity b … | Continue reading
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences professors Ev Fedorenko, Ted Gibson, and Roger Levy believe they have an answer to a fundamental question: What is the purpose of language? | Continue reading
MIT PhD student Avni Singhal uses computational tools to help design new materials that address environmental challenges. She is also a key student voice on the Department of Materials Science and Engineering graduate committee. | Continue reading
MIT Professor James Fujimoto and MIT affiliates David Huang and Eric Swanson have won the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for groundbreaking work on optical coherence tomography (OCT), which allows rapid detection of diseases of the retina, among other medical … | Continue reading
Songyee Yoon PhD ’00, president and chief strategic officer of NCSOFT, has been appointed as the MIT School of Engineering Visiting Innovation Scholar for the 2023-24 academic year. | Continue reading
Members of MIT gathered with local, state, and federal leaders in Kendall Square for the opening of the new John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center building — designed and built by MIT — which will support the country’s most innovative transportation projects. | Continue reading
The Design Justice Project at MIT is organizing education summits and technical workshops on incorporating ideas and shared strategies to bring the principles of design justice into the classroom and workplace. | Continue reading
A new study suggests patches of fertile soil in the Amazon, known as dark earth, were intentionally produced by ancient Amazonians as a way to improve the soil and sustain large and complex societies. | Continue reading
In his book “Iterate,” MIT Associate Professor Justin Reich contends the key to improvement in schools is modest-sized, incremental changes that can be repeatedly refined. | Continue reading
MIT Morningside Academy for Design Fellow combines her expertise in urban planning and business administration to tackle complex social issues within government systems. | Continue reading
The MIT School of Engineering and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology announce that Yiyue Luo, Zanele Munyikwa, Michelle Vaccaro, Chonghuan Wang, and Aaron Michael West Jr. are the 2023-24 graduate fellows. | Continue reading
MIT Lincoln Laboratory technologies received five awards from R&D World for 2023. The awards recognize this year's 100 most innovative products that have been transitioned to use or introduced to the marketplace. | Continue reading
New research examines the “revolution” in the study of deforestation brought about by satellites, and analyzing which kinds of policies might limit climate-altering deforestation. | Continue reading
Help for immigrants in arranging primary care visits leads to substantial drop in ER visits and costs, a new study shows. | Continue reading
MIT engineers designed an implantable device that carries hundreds of thousands of islet cells along with its own on-board oxygen factory to keep the cells healthy. Such a device could help Type 1 diabetes patients eliminate the need for insulin injections. | Continue reading
Following MIT President Sally Kornbluth’s call for proposals, 27 teams of MIT scholars have been selected to develop research papers analyzing the impact of generative AI on education, companionship, music, and more. | Continue reading
At MIT, Sharmi Shah combined her interest in mechanical engineering with a passion for robotics with Course 2-A/6, a customizable degree path that combines mechanical engineering with computer science and electrical engineering. | Continue reading