“Scientific InQueery” features LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students discussing finding community and living their authentic lives in the research enterprise. | Continue reading
With their “T-REX” method, DNA embedded in the polymer could be used for long-term storage of genomes or digital data such as photos and music. | Continue reading
After 36 years and hundreds of titles, the executive editor reflects on his career as a “champion of rigorous and brilliant scholarship.” | Continue reading
Co-hosted by the McGovern Institute, MIT Open Learning, and others, the symposium stressed emerging technologies in advancing understanding of mental health and neurological conditions. | Continue reading
MIT neuroscientists have found that the brain uses the same cognitive representations whether navigating through space physically or mentally. | Continue reading
MIT scientists honored in each of the three Kavli Prize categories: neuroscience, nanoscience, and astrophysics, respectively. | Continue reading
The method uses language-based inputs instead of costly visual data to direct a robot through a multistep navigation task. | Continue reading
A new downscaling method leverages machine learning to speed up climate model simulations at finer resolutions, making them usable on local levels. | Continue reading
DenseAV, developed at MIT, learns to parse and understand the meaning of language just by watching videos of people talking, with potential applications in multimedia search, language learning, and robotics. | Continue reading
The technique characterizes a material’s electronic properties 85 times faster than conventional methods. | Continue reading
Twelve finalists participated in initiative and 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition, designed to support female biotech pioneers. | Continue reading
The MITx MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy program educates learners around the world using its data-driven approach to poverty alleviation. | Continue reading
Second annual assembly, sponsored by the Department of Biology and Picower Institute, invited postdocs from across the country to meet with faculty, present their work to the MIT community, and build relationships. | Continue reading
Researchers created a water-soluble version of an important bacterial enzyme, which can now be used in drug screens to identify new antibiotics. | Continue reading
“I would like to understand the extent to which we understand things,” the MIT economist says. | Continue reading
A class this semester challenged students to evaluate technologies to help MIT decarbonize — with implications for organizations across the globe. | Continue reading
Namrata Kala’s wide-ranging research shows how climate change and other factors affect companies and their employees. | Continue reading
In the new economics course 14.163 (Algorithms and Behavioral Science), students investigate the deployment of machine-learning tools and their potential to understand people, reduce bias, and improve society. | Continue reading
Professors Erik Lin-Greenberg and Tracy Slatyer are honored as “Committed to Caring.” | Continue reading
Smaller than a coin, this optical device could enable rapid prototyping on the go. | Continue reading
In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose. | Continue reading
Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows. | Continue reading
Physics professor will use the award to develop a new kind of microscopy. | Continue reading
MIT researchers show a promising plan for using clean-burning hydrogen in place of the diesel fuel now used in most freight-transport trucks. | Continue reading
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures. | Continue reading
During the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s Congressional Visit Days, PhD students and postdocs met with legislators to share expertise and advocate for science agency funding. | Continue reading
The Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP) helps second-year MIT students looking to build career readiness skills. | Continue reading
By capturing short-lived RNA molecules, scientists can map relationships between genes and the regulatory elements that control them. | Continue reading
Ranking at the top for the 13th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 11 subject areas. | Continue reading
The work could lead to ultra-efficient electronics and more. | Continue reading
New research addresses a gap in understanding how ketamine’s impact on individual neurons leads to pervasive and profound changes in brain network function. | Continue reading
The MIT Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies has hosted more than 750 mid-career individuals from 135 nations who are or will be shaping policy in their home countries. | Continue reading
New studies show that caste and ethnic identity play an outsize role in how business interacts with government in developing countries. | Continue reading
MIT engineers’ new implantable device could become an alternative to the electrodes now used to treat Parkinson’s and other diseases. | Continue reading
The fellowships provide five years of funding to doctoral students in applied science, engineering, and mathematics who have “the extraordinary creativity and principled leadership necessary to tackle problems others can’t solve.” | Continue reading
MIT CSAIL’s frugal deep-learning model infers the hidden physical properties of objects, then adapts to find the most stable grasps for robots in unstructured environments like homes and fulfillment centers. | Continue reading
With generative AI models, researchers combined robotics data from different sources to help robots learn better. | Continue reading
The term members will serve between one and five years on MIT’s board of trustees. | Continue reading
“Design is not a luxury,” the Gensler global co-chair told advanced degree recipients. “It’s for everyone, everywhere.” | Continue reading
“You’ll continue to inspire and give to others that follow,” Nobles told this year’s graduating class. | Continue reading
The inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist encourages the Class of 2024 to “accept impossible missions” and “lead with imagination” in uncertain times. | Continue reading
“Welcome long odds,” the biotechnology leader urged the Class of 2024. “Embrace uncertainty, and lead with imagination.” | Continue reading
“I have never seen a community quite like this one,” Kornbluth told graduates. | Continue reading
The findings should help scientists refine predictions of future sea-level rise. | Continue reading
SMART researchers find a cellular process called transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) modification influences the malaria parasite’s ability to develop resistance. | Continue reading
At the 2024 Earth Day Colloquium, World Resource Institute President and CEO Ani Dasgupta says systemic changes in a handful of countries will be critical to meeting global emissions goals. | Continue reading
Collaborative scholarship and research will draw on conservation, design, and technology. | Continue reading
Open-access monographs receive significantly more use and citations than non-open counterparts, and are more successful at reaching audiences beyond academia. | Continue reading