MIT professor will use the fellowship in behavioral sciences to advance a book on theme parks as immersive systems, extending her research from digital worlds to physical ones. | Continue reading
The weird quantum behavior of subatomic particles can be understood through everyday classical ideas, MIT researchers show. | Continue reading
Mitali Chowdhury ’24 and Christina Kim ’24 will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University in the UK. | Continue reading
A book by Associate Professor Jason Jackson explores how policymakers moved past post-colonial India to support its own captains of industry. | Continue reading
Rep. Jake Auchincloss visits the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center to learn about scaling geothermal energy. | Continue reading
Reframe Systems, co-founded by Vikas Enti SM '20, creates microfactories for modular home construction, reducing carbon emissions and costs. | Continue reading
In “Priority Technologies,” MIT faculty examine key areas of innovation that can drive American prosperity and security — now and in the decades ahead. | Continue reading
Associate Professor Richard Linares is helping satellites safely navigate in increasingly congested orbits. | Continue reading
The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognized Laub and 21 alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields. | Continue reading
Philosopher Sam Berstler explains why we have social norms that let people engage in open deception. | Continue reading
The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT. | Continue reading
Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering. | Continue reading
MIT scientists create a detailed map of exactly what happens in the brains of C. elegans worms when they “follow their nose” to savor attractive odors or avoid unappealing ones. | Continue reading
Findings suggest that at the county level, rise in prices is due, in part, to the fact that new neighbors have a positive impact on K-12 education. | Continue reading
New MIT work advances the growing field of ionotronics, in which data are transferred through ions, potentially providing a bridge between electronics and biological tissue. | Continue reading
Associate Professor Skylar Tibbits discusses a new technology that uses granular convection to deliver individualized performance. | Continue reading
Scientists say an exception in the Montreal Protocol for the use of ozone-depleting feedstocks could set the ozone recovery back seven years. | Continue reading
From lazy ripples to towering breakers, waves should vary widely from one planet to another, according to a new model. | Continue reading
Long thought to be mainly a structural support, the cell membrane also influences how cells respond to signals and may contribute to the growth of cancer cells. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that the chemical NDMA is much more likely to cause cancerous mutations after exposure early in life. | Continue reading
MIT Energy Initiative symposium maps a path to tap the planet’s heat-rich rocks for clean power at scale. | Continue reading
Two faculty and six additional alumni win top APS awards and prizes; four faculty and 12 additional alumni named APS Fellows. | Continue reading
The devices represent a key step toward practical quantum sensing, with applications in biomedical sensing, materials characterization, and more. | Continue reading
MIT students see the Earth's curvature in reborn AeroAstro intro course. | Continue reading
As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission. | Continue reading
Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions. | Continue reading
A chemical-free approach to balancing ocean acidity protects marine life and could dramatically impact the global aquaculture market. | Continue reading
Saxophonist Miguel Zenón, a Grammy-winning MIT faculty member, creates a distinctive blend of jazz and traditional Puerto Rican music. | Continue reading
The influential first leader of the Computation Structures Group at MIT played a key role in the development of asynchronous computing. | Continue reading
SNIPE, a newly characterized defense system, directly protects bacteria by chopping up invading viral DNA. | Continue reading
As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies. | Continue reading
A new study finds that audiobooks help students learn new words — especially when paired with one-on-one instruction. | Continue reading
PhD student Carissma McGee studies exoplanets and examines intellectual property frameworks for space collaborations. | Continue reading
Electrofluidic fibers mimic how natural muscle fibers bundle, and could enable compact, silent robotic and prosthetic systems. | Continue reading
Researchers use control theory to shed unnecessary complexity from AI models during training, cutting compute costs without sacrificing performance. | Continue reading
MIT economist Emil Verner’s historical detective work shows how banking-sector crises develop out of bad business practices. | Continue reading
Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial initiatives across the School of Engineering. | Continue reading
The team’s ultra-precise measurement confirms the Standard Model’s predictions. | Continue reading
Startup accelerator program grows to over 30 companies, almost half of them with MIT pedigrees. | Continue reading
This new technique will allow chemists to efficiently fine-tune the chemical structure of an organic molecule. | Continue reading
Researchers uncovered how cells selectively destroy certain microRNAs — key gene regulators — through a mechanism that requires two RNA signals working together. | Continue reading
Study finds a common bacterium can suppress the body’s early warning system in wounds, causing infections to persist and create an environment that allows other bacteria to take hold. | Continue reading
Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 6. | Continue reading
Researchers developed a system that intelligently balances workloads to improve the efficiency of flash storage hardware in a data center. | Continue reading
MIT physicists have discovered 3D “moiré crystals” that simulate four-dimensional quantum materials to a T. | Continue reading
“You can’t teach planning today without grappling with how policy actually unfolds within communities,” says Professor Phillip Thompson. | Continue reading
An MIT Stone Center event examined the origins, mechanisms, and political consequences of high inequality. | Continue reading
Dean Price, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sees a bright future for nuclear power, and believes AI can help us realize that vision. | Continue reading