MIT Geophysicist William Frank discusses the recent earthquake in Japan off the Noto Peninsula, which is part of an earthquake swarm that started in 2020. These swarms are different than subduction earthquakes and are less understood. | Continue reading
Hundreds of participants from around the world joined the sixth annual MIT Policy Hackathon to develop data-informed policy solutions to challenges in health, housing, and more. | Continue reading
MIT's new Decarbonization Working Group will support efforts to explore game-changing and evolving technologies with the potential to move campuses like MIT away from carbon emissions-based energy systems. | Continue reading
Atacama Biomaterials, a startup co-founded by MIT alumna Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas, combines architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create inexpensive eco-friendly materials from bio-based polymers. | Continue reading
A new method predicts how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve due to climate change. Using New York as a test case, the model predicts Hurricane Sandy-level flooding will occur roughly every 30 years by 2099. | Continue reading
An MIT model predicts how shoe properties will affect a runner’s performance. The model could be a tool for designers looking to push the boundaries of sneaker design. | Continue reading
Although artificial intelligence in health has shown great promise, pressure is mounting for regulators around the world to act, as AI tools demonstrate potentially harmful outcomes. | Continue reading
Senior and MIT Crew member Tatum Wilhelm balances her chemical engineering and anthropology studies with early mornings on the Charles River. | Continue reading
His wide-ranging and influential career included fundamental discoveries about how visual scenes and stimuli are processed from the retina through the cortical visual system. | Continue reading
The Knight Science Journalism at MIT program’s Victor K. McElheny Award honors outstanding local and regional journalists’ reporting on science, public health, tech, and the environment. | Continue reading
The MIT Media Lab mourns the passing of staff member Elise O'Hara, a cherished member of the MIT community, at age 37. | Continue reading
To make the new entertainment venue a reality, Jared Miller ’98, MBA ’03, SM ’03 assembled a team that reflected his experience at MIT. | Continue reading
The brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, according to an MIT study. | Continue reading
A compound originally developed as a cancer treatment may hold promise for treating polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), which affects more than half a million Americans and can lead to kidney enlargement and loss of function. | Continue reading
Now in its 20th year, MIT Health's annual getfit challenge encourages everyone at the Institute to get moving during the cold months. | Continue reading
MIT Blueprint Labs recently launched a Charter School Research Collaborative to bring together the charter policy, practice, and research communities. The collaborative will foster new partnerships and make research on charter schools more rigorous, actionable, and policy-relevan … | Continue reading
From robotics to dance, MIT senior Baran Mensah has made it his mission to explore as many new experiences as possible at the Institute. | Continue reading
A new way to recover significantly more circulating tumor DNA in a blood sample could improve the sensitivity of liquid biopsies used to detect, monitor, and guide treatment of tumors. | Continue reading
PRISM, developed by MIT CSAIL, is a pancreatic cancer risk prediction model using a vast, federated network of electronic health records from numerous U.S. healthcare organizations. | Continue reading
At the MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium, Shell’s chief technology officer laid out two very different potential paths for the decades ahead. | Continue reading
PhD students Athul Paul Jacob, Maohao Shen, Victor Butoi, and Andi Peng, interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, look to improve natural language usage in AI models so that the AI systems can be more dependable and accurate. | Continue reading
A growing number of studies are showing beneficial clinical effects from noninvasive stimulation of gamma rhythms in the brain, but clinical evidence remains preliminary and animal studies have been instructive, but not definitive. | Continue reading
Some 150 MIT students, including Maia DeMeyer and Em Ball, are MedLinks liaisons who help their classmates with minor medical issues. | Continue reading
MIT chemists developed a battery cathode based on organic materials, which could reduce the EV industry’s reliance on scarce metals. | Continue reading
The six anatomical layers of the mammalian brain cortex show distinct patterns of electrical activity which are consistent throughout the entire cortex and across several animal species, including humans, an MIT study has found. | Continue reading
MIT researchers designed a self-powering, battery-free, energy-harvesting sensor. Using the framework they developed, they produced a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire. | Continue reading
An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks health AI could benefit from some of the aviation industry’s long history of hard-won lessons that have created one of the safest activities today. | Continue reading
The MIT First Generation/Low Income (FLI) Program, part of the Undergraduate Advising Center that provides support for undergraduates who are the first in their family to go to college and/or are low-income, is steadily expanding its programs and services. | Continue reading
John LaBoiteaux Buttrick, a former professor in MIT’s Music and Theater Arts program, prize-winning pianist, and renowned classical musician, died in late November, 2023, in Zurich, Switzerland. He was 88. | Continue reading
The MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center, founded with a $28 million gift from Lisa Yang, aims to rethink how products and technologies for resource-constrained communities are conceived, designed, and commercialized. | Continue reading
Lt. Col. Jill Rahon is a fourth-year doctoral student studying applied physics at the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, working on engineering solutions for enforcement of nuclear nonproliferation treaties. | Continue reading
Led by new Chief Officer for Business and Digital Transformation Renaud Fournier, MIT is launching an effort to simplify business operations and systems for its community. | Continue reading
MIT Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Education Ian Waitz discusses the three-year collective bargaining agreement reached with the MIT Graduate Student Union in September 2023. | Continue reading
The MIT AgeLab’s Aging and Equity Speaker Series aims to explore how issues impacting older adults intersect with topics like inclusion and equality. | Continue reading
The Good Jobs Institute, founded by MIT Sloan’s Zeynep Ton, has developed a framework for supporting frontline employees that boosts revenue and improves workers’ lives. | Continue reading
MIT has appointed Michael John Gorman the Mark R. Epstein (Class of 1963) Director of the recently re-imagined MIT Museum, effective summer 2024. | Continue reading
The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering developed a professional education course for the Australian Submarine Agency to support and train executives from the Australian Navy. The three-week course covered a broad range of topics, from the basics of nuclear reactor … | Continue reading
A new comic takes readers through a history of infectious disease discoveries. “A Paradigm Shift in Infectious Disease” follows MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba and artist Argha Manna, who are both protagonists and creators of the project. | Continue reading
The MIT School of Science awarded professors Roger Levy, Pulin Li, and David McGee teaching prizes for exceptional undergraduate and graduate instruction. | Continue reading
The MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool (MOCAT) offers a unique open-source solution for modeling space debris and assessing collision risks in low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Biology graduate student Juana De La O is building connections through her thesis work in mouse development and her passion for cooking and baking. | Continue reading
MIT Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Practice Richard M. Wiesman died Sunday, Jan. 7. He was 69. Wiesman taught and supervised research in design, product development, robotics, controls, and manufacturing, and served as co-director of MIT’s Field and Space Robotics Labora … | Continue reading
At the MIT Blueprint Labs Preschool Research Convening, practitioners presented studies on early childhood education and discussed future directions. | Continue reading
A new method can track changes in live cell gene expression over extended periods of time. Based on Raman spectroscopy, the method doesn’t harm cells and can be performed repeatedly. | Continue reading
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team is building a hydrogen-powered electric motorcycle, using a fuel cell system, to serve as a testbed for new hydrogen-based transportation. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Keeril Makan describes the MIT Music Building currently under construction that will feature rehearsal and performance spaces, a recording studio, classrooms, and music technology laboratories. | Continue reading
MIT chemical engineers create a zwitterionic hydrogel system for single-step water treatment with minimal environmental footprint. | Continue reading
International energy company becomes sustaining member of industry group. | Continue reading