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
MIT assistant professor of physics shares award for understanding the large-scale structure of the universe. | Continue reading
MIT students in the club dynaMIT teach STEM principles to under-resourced middle school students from the Boston area for free. | Continue reading
Staff share nano experience — and ice cream — with their families. | Continue reading
MIT has placed second in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best colleges and universities for 2023-24. | Continue reading
MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and the Rhodium Group have launched the Clean Investment Monitor, a database to monitor investments in clean technologies and infrastructure in the United States. | Continue reading
With Style2Fab, developed at MIT, makers can rapidly customize models of 3D-printable objects, such as assistive devices, without hampering their functionality. | Continue reading
An MIT study reveals a possible explanation for why checkpoint blockade inhibitors don’t work well for some patients whose tumors have a high mutational burden. | Continue reading
A machine-learning system remotely analyzes videos of people with motor or neurological disorders, and assesses their movement in real-time. The technology could reduce the need doctor visits for patients with cerebral palsy and other disorders. | Continue reading
Plata’s expertise in academics and industry will help advance the mission of the consortium and propel implementable climate solutions forward. | Continue reading
MIT Sloan Dean Emeritus William Pounds died Aug. 23 at the age of 95. An expert in corporate governance and operations management, he championed a generation of MIT Sloan faculty members. | Continue reading
By mining X-ray images, MIT researchers have made significant new discoveries about the reactivity of lithium iron phosphate, a material used in batteries for electric cars and in other rechargeable batteries. | Continue reading
A new synthetic dataset and fine-tuning technique can be used to help machine-learning models understand the concepts in a scene, such as the positional relationships between objects, rather than just learning the object names. | Continue reading
Demo Day 2024, the capstone event for MIT’s delta v accelerator, gave students a chance to celebrate startup milestones they achieved over the summer. | Continue reading
A machine-learning model for high-resolution computer vision could enable computationally intensive vision applications, such as autonomous driving or medical image segmentation, on edge devices. | Continue reading
MIT PhD student Jackson Jewett is working to shrink the construction industry’s huge carbon footprint through algorithms for designing large structures using less material. | Continue reading
By adding synergistic self-adjuvanting properties to Covid-19 RNA vaccines, MIT researchers showed they could significantly boost the immune response generated in mice. | Continue reading
In experiments aboard the International Space Station, a surface treatment developed by MIT engineers prevented the growth of microbial biofims. These films can damage equipment and potentially cause illness. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the material’s environmental impact. | Continue reading
MIT alumnus Leon Villegas builds on his journey from Mexico to MIT's Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program as an operations leader in guiding the production of the new Generation 6 autonomous eVTOL air taxi at Wisk Aero. | Continue reading
Taking advantage of a phenomenon known as emergent behavior, MIT engineers have designed simple microparticles that can collectively generate complex behavior. Working together, the microparticles can generate a beating clock that oscillates at a very low frequency. These oscilla … | Continue reading
MIT engineers created shape-memory materials made of ceramic rather than of traditional metal. The development opens a new range of applications, especially for actuators in high-temperature settings. | Continue reading
MIT News spoke with Professor Elfatih Eltahir and Alexandre Tuel PhD ’20 about this summer’s drought and record temperatures in Europe and whether this is a harbinger of things to come as the Earth’s climate warms. | Continue reading
MIT graduate student Amelia Trainer’s work in modeling and simulating complicated neutron behavior in reactors is fundamental to understanding how nuclear reactors operate and helps forecast the behavior of reactors. | Continue reading
The MIT Center for Gynepathology Research hosted a rally, networking reception, film screening, and expert panel discussion on women’s reproductive health, with particular attention on endometriosis. | Continue reading
MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers mapped out many of the cells, genes, and cellular pathways that are modified by exercise or a high-fat diet. They hope their findings will help guide the design of drugs that might mimic some beneficial effects of exercise. | Continue reading
A new technique enables on-device training of machine-learning models on edge devices like microcontrollers, which have very limited memory. This could allow edge devices to continually learn from new data, eliminating data privacy issues, while enabling user customization. | Continue reading
MIT researchers built a battery-free, wireless underwater camera, powered by sound waves, that can take high-quality, color images, even in dark environments. It transmits image data through the open water to a receiver that reconstructs the color image. | Continue reading
In research that could jumpstart work on technologies including fuel cells, key to storing solar and wind energy, MIT researchers have found a relatively simple way to increase the lifetimes of these devices: changing the “pH” of the system. | Continue reading
MIT neuroscientists discovered a circuit in the brain’s prefrontal cortex that they believe controls diversion of attention away from everyday pursuits to potential threats, potentially affecting anxiety. They also found dopamine is key to this process. | Continue reading
MIT engineers fabricated a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin.” The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals related to pulse, sweat, and ultraviolet exposure, without bulky chips or batteries. | Continue reading
MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya’s new book is a contemplative look at solving a midlife crisis. | Continue reading
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass. | Continue reading
MIT engineers have developed a method to increase wind farms’ energy output. Whereas individual turbines are typically controlled separately, the new approach models the wind flow of the entire collection of turbines and optimizes the control of individual units. | Continue reading
MIT researchers developed a test that may predict an individual’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2. Their test, which uses the same type of lateral flow technology as most Covid-19 antigen tests, measures neutralizing antibodies that target the SARS-CoV-2 virus in blood. | Continue reading
MIT researchers have developed a technique to 3D-print materials with customizable mechanical properties that can also sense how they are moving and interacting with their environment. Their method only requires one printing material and a single run on a 3D printer. | Continue reading
Natel Energy, founded by sibling MIT alumni, is deploying hydropower plants with new, fish-safe turbines and other features designed to mimic natural conditions to improve sustainability of the industry. | Continue reading
MIT researchers discovered that congestion control algorithms designed to ensure multiple users sending data over a network do so fairly are actually unable to avoid situations where some users are hogging all the bandwidth. | Continue reading
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed a machine-learning model that can answer university-level mathematics problems with 100 percent accuracy. The model can also grade questions and generate new questions that college students found to be indistinguishable from those crea … | Continue reading