From robotics to apps like “NerdXing,” senior Julianna Schneider is building technologies to solve problems in her community. | Continue reading
Andrew Mankus, MIT’s award-winning director of dining, describes why leading with a “students-first mentality” leads to better food offerings for the entire community. | Continue reading
At MIT, metallurgist Diran Apelian ScD ’73 urges engineers and researchers to rethink design, recycling, and the life cycle of modern materials. | Continue reading
CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when guided by another network’s built-in biases using their guidance method. | Continue reading
A new book providing a roadmap for blending innovation with tradition among shrinking towns blossomed from a practicum in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. | Continue reading
Global Change Outlook report for 2025 shows how accelerated action can reduce climate risks and improve sustainability outcomes, while highlighting potential geopolitical hurdles. | Continue reading
The senior, who is involved in Dormitory Council, Hydrant, the Student Information Processing Board, and SuperUROP, is double majoring in computer science and engineering and in urban planning. | Continue reading
The AI-powered tool could inform the design of better sensors and cameras for robots or autonomous vehicles. | Continue reading
Nineteen-year-old Freesia Gaul built a VR prototype thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare classes that provided “a solid foundation of knowledge and problem-solving abilities.” | Continue reading
The Hood Pediatric Innovation Hub brings together clinicians, researchers, and industry to bridge the gap between discovery and care. | Continue reading
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers developed an expressive architecture that provides better state tracking and sequential reasoning in LLMs over long texts. | Continue reading
Stimulating the liver to produce some of the signals of the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations and enhance response to vaccination. | Continue reading
In his 10 years at MIT, Loureiro helped illuminate the physics occurring at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe. | Continue reading
New analysis provides the first national, bottom-up estimate of cement’s natural carbon dioxide uptake across buildings and infrastructure. | Continue reading
Using new molecules that block an immune checkpoint, researchers showed they could stimulate a strong anti-tumor immune response. | Continue reading
An AI-driven system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing them with words. | Continue reading
Assistant Professor Yunha Hwang utilizes microbial genomes to examine the language of biology. Her appointment reflects MIT’s commitment to exploring the intersection of genetics research and AI. | Continue reading
Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions. | Continue reading
Nuclear waste continues to be a bottleneck in the widespread use of nuclear energy, so doctoral student Dauren Sarsenbayev is developing models to address the problem. | Continue reading
Tracking how fruit fly motor neurons edit their RNA, neurobiologists cataloged hundreds of target sites and varying editing rates, finding many edits altered communication- and function-related proteins. | Continue reading
MIT researchers found a way to predict how efficiently materials can transport protons in clean energy devices and other advanced technologies. | Continue reading
The approach could apply to more complex tissues and organs, helping researchers to identify early signs of disease. | Continue reading
“Our students’ ... dedication reflects not only their generosity, but also the spirit of engaging the MIT community in giving back through philanthropy.” | Continue reading
Angela Koehler, Iain Cheeseman, and Katharina Ribbeck are shaping the collaborative as a platform for transformative research, translation, and talent development across MIT. | Continue reading
The “self-steering” DisCIPL system directs small models to work together on tasks with constraints, like itinerary planning and budgeting. | Continue reading
The new certificate program will equip naval officers with skills needed to solve the military’s hardest problems. | Continue reading
Tools for forecasting and modeling technological improvements and the impacts of policy decisions can result in more effective and impactful decision-making. | Continue reading
With its circular single-stranded DNA molecules, MIT spinout Kano Therapeutics plans to make gene and cell therapies safer and more effective. | Continue reading
The leader accepted the Miriam Pozen Prize for international financial policy and delivered a lecture at the MIT Sloan School of Management. | Continue reading
The technique can help scientists in economics, public health, and other fields understand whether to trust the results of their experiments. | Continue reading
Eleven new professors join the departments of Biology; Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics. | Continue reading
A study profiling antigens presented on immune and tumor cells in co-culture points to new strategies for attacking a treatment-resistant and deadly brain cancer. | Continue reading
Therapeutic antibodies packaged into microparticles could be injected with a standard syringe, avoiding the need for time-consuming transfusions. | Continue reading
An electrical engineer by training, Su is the chair and CEO of the semiconductor company AMD. | Continue reading
Chemical engineers have found a simple way to make capturing carbon emissions from industrial plants more energy-efficient. | Continue reading
By stacking multiple active components based on new materials on the back end of a computer chip, this new approach reduces the amount of energy wasted during computation. | Continue reading
The PKG Center is commemorating 25 years of the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge with regional student-alumni hackathons for social impact. | Continue reading
Temporarily anesthetizing the retina briefly reverts the activity of the visual system to that observed in early development and enables growth of responses to the amblyopic (“lazy”) eye. | Continue reading
The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo. | Continue reading
The new TechAMP program teaches production principles to workers, helping them advance their careers and identify savings at their firms. | Continue reading
MIT researchers identified three cognitive skills that we use to infer what someone really means. | Continue reading
In the 2025 Dresselhaus Lecture, the materials scientist describes her work 3D printing soft materials ranging from robots to human tissues. | Continue reading
Students and postdocs traveled to Washington to learn about federal science and technology policymaking. | Continue reading
The project was designed and built with novel “bio-composite” materials developed by the student team. | Continue reading
MIT researchers discover how an immune system molecule triggers neurons to shut down social behavior in mice modeling infection. | Continue reading
MIT researchers analyzed a recently discovered ancient construction site to shed new light on a material that has endured for thousands of years. | Continue reading
A new atlas charts the diversity of an influential cell type in the brains of mice and marmosets. | Continue reading
Postdoc Zongyi Li, Associate Professor Tess Smidt, and seven additional alumni will be supported in the development of AI against difficult problems. | Continue reading