The researchers identified an atomic-level interaction that prevents peptide bonds from being broken down by water. | Continue reading
The spending increases were particularly pronounced for businesses within 100 yards of charging stations, and for businesses in low-income areas. | Continue reading
PhD student Oscar Molina seeks new ways to assemble proteins into targeted cancer therapies, while also encouraging his fellow first-generation graduate students. | Continue reading
Building a drone for the first time, the MIT First Nations Launch team excelled in designing a scientific payload to deploy from a rocket and landing it safely. | Continue reading
Professors Mariya Grinberg and Nuh Gedik are honored as “Committed to Caring.” | Continue reading
Mechatronics combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about design. | Continue reading
Researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits the purpose of their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias. | Continue reading
Charalampos Sampalis explores all that MIT Open Learning has to offer while growing his career in Athens, Greece. | Continue reading
MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs, | Continue reading
A new algorithm solves complicated partial differential equations by breaking them down into simpler problems, potentially guiding computer graphics and geometry processing. | Continue reading
MD/PhD student Sayo Eweje seeks to develop new technologies for delivering RNA and protein therapies directly to the body’s cells. | Continue reading
Saeed Miganeh’s work at MIT is helping him answer important questions about designing effective programs for poverty mitigation and economic growth in African countries. | Continue reading
The senior strategic sourcing analyst is responsible for everything related to travel and hospitality that involves purchasing at MIT. | Continue reading
The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries. | Continue reading
“Empathy and respect are central values here,” Kornbluth tells MIT’s newest students and their families at the President’s Convocation. | Continue reading
In language-processing areas of the brain, some cell populations respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words. | Continue reading
By unraveling the genetic pathways that help Toxoplasma gondii persist in human cells, Sebastian Lourido hopes to find new ways to treat toxoplasmosis. | Continue reading
A new family of integrated rock salt-polyanion cathodes opens door to low-cost, high-energy storage. | Continue reading
Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography. | Continue reading
Amulya Aluru ’23, MEng ’24 and the MIT Spokes have spent the summer spreading science, over 3,000 miles on two wheels. | Continue reading
Rising senior and Army ROTC cadet Alexander Edwards and Aneal Krishnan ’02 discuss a new UROP fellowship with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. | Continue reading
With extensive international outreach experience as a faculty member and program leader, Boning brings a spirit of curiosity and collaboration to his new role. | Continue reading
Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill provides an update on MIT’s newest incoming class. | Continue reading
Fasting helps intestinal stem cells regenerate and heal injuries but also leads to a higher risk of cancer in mice, MIT researchers report. | Continue reading
The first comprehensive model of rotor aerodynamics could improve the way turbine blades and wind farms are designed and how wind turbines are controlled. | Continue reading
Professor Ellen Roche is creating the next generation of medical devices to help repair hearts, lungs, and other tissues. | Continue reading
Sophie Hartley wants to help people learn about the importance of natural resources and land management through science writing. | Continue reading
The convoluted “legalese” used in legal documents conveys a special sense of authority, and even non-lawyers have learned to wield it. | Continue reading
MIT researchers have found a way to make structural materials last longer under the harsh conditions inside a fusion reactor. | Continue reading
AI agents could soon become indistinguishable from humans online. Could “personhood credentials” protect people against digital imposters? | Continue reading
By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, Dominika Ďurovčíková is illuminating an early moment when galaxies could first be observed. | Continue reading
Ortiz is an internationally recognized researcher in biotechnology and biomaterials, advanced and additive manufacturing, and sustainable and socially-directed materials design. | Continue reading
These zinc-air batteries, smaller than a grain of sand, could help miniscule robots sense and respond to their environment. | Continue reading
The software tool NeuroTrALE is designed to quickly and efficiently process large amounts of brain imaging data semi-automatically. | Continue reading
MIT’s Office of Graduate Education hosts Summit on Creating Inclusive Pathways to the PhD | Continue reading
The presence of organic matter is inconclusive, but the rocks could be scientists’ best chance at finding remnants of ancient Martian life. | Continue reading
The new device, which can be implanted under the skin, rapidly releases naloxone when an overdose is detected. | Continue reading
The approach can detect anomalies in data recorded over time, without the need for any training. | Continue reading
Gamma frequency light and sound stimulation preserves myelination in mouse models and reveals molecular mechanisms that may underlie the benefit. | Continue reading
A wide range of faculty disciplines showcases the breadth of research and scholarship across the school. | Continue reading
The scholar’s body of work included two literary biographies of great American writers. | Continue reading
Historian Caley Horan studies commerce and uncertainty in modern American life. | Continue reading
An MIT-led group shows how to achieve precise control over the properties of Weyl semimetals and other exotic substances. | Continue reading
The innovation, which employs beeswax to maintain consistent heating, is the result of three years of co-design with Cameroonian poultry farmers. | Continue reading
Large multi-ring-containing molecules known as oligocyclotryptamines have never been produced in the lab until now. | Continue reading
Professor who uses a cross-disciplinary approach to understand human diseases on a molecular and cellular level succeeds Elazer Edelman. | Continue reading
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub research presents a streamlined pavement life-cycle assessment tool to enable a large set of stakeholders to conduct environmental analysis of pavements. | Continue reading
SimPLE learns to pick, regrasp, and place objects using the objects’ computer-aided design model. | Continue reading