Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time

A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products. | Continue reading


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Unparalleled student support

Professors Andrew Vanderburg and Ariel White are honored as “Committed to Caring.” | Continue reading


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Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scientists report

With projected global warming, the frequency of extreme storms will ramp up by the end of the century, according to a new study. | Continue reading


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Engineered bacteria emit signals that can be spotted from a distance

These bacteria, which could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, could act as sensors to help farmers monitor their crops. | Continue reading


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New method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data

The approach maintains an AI model’s accuracy while ensuring attackers can’t extract secret information. | Continue reading


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Building for Ukraine: A hackathon with a mission

No venture capital, no competition — just real-world problems in urgent need of solutions. | Continue reading


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MIT students advance solutions for water and food with the help of J-WAFS

J-WAFS marks 10 years of supporting student engagement through grants, fellowships, events, mentorship, and funding for clubs. | Continue reading


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Four from MIT awarded 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Fellowship honors contributions of immigrants to American society by awarding $90,000 in funding for graduate studies. | Continue reading


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Hopping gives this tiny robot a leg up

MIT engineers developed an insect-sized jumping robot that can traverse challenging terrains and carry heavy payloads. | Continue reading


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Exploring the impacts of technology on everyday citizens

Associate Professor Dwai Banerjee examines topics ranging from cancer care to the history of computing. | Continue reading


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Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it. | Continue reading


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The spark of innovation and the commercialization journey

Entrepreneur and educator Vanessa Chan PhD ’00 explores how to bridge the gap between invention and market. | Continue reading


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Enabling energy innovation at scale

As part of MITEI’s speaker series, The Engine CEO Emily Knight explained how to take “tough tech” innovation from idea to impact. | Continue reading


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MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2025-26

Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5. | Continue reading


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Supersize me

Political scientist Kathleen Thelen’s new book explains how America’s large retailers got very, very large. | Continue reading


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A new way to bring personal items to mixed reality

“InteRecon” enables users to capture items in a mobile app and reconstruct their interactive features in mixed reality. The tool could assist in education, medical environments, museums, and more. | Continue reading


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The human body, its movement, and music

Connected by MIT’s Human Insight Collaborative, Lecturer Mi-Eun Kim and Research Scientist Praneeth Namburi want to develop an understanding of musical expression and skill development. | Continue reading


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Remembering Juanita Battle: “Everything about her was just happy”

MIT Health mourns the loss of the student health plan research and resolution specialist. | Continue reading


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Molecules that fight infection also act on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability

New research on a cytokine called IL-17 adds to growing evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness. | Continue reading


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3Q: MIT’s Lonnie Petersen on the first medical X-ray taken in space

Performed in microgravity, 200 miles above the Earth’s surface, the imaging procedure could help keep astronauts safe and healthy on long-term missions. | Continue reading


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Breakerspace image contest showcases creativity, perseverance

The undergraduate lab’s first microscope competition highlights stunning images and student ingenuity. | Continue reading


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Lincoln Laboratory honored for technology transfer of hurricane-tracking satellites

Federal Laboratory Consortium award recognizes excellence in commercializing small microwave sounders expected to improve weather forecasts. | Continue reading


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Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping

Researchers analyzed the full lifecycle of several fuel options and found this approach has a comparable environmental impact, overall, to burning low-sulfur fuels. | Continue reading


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Carsten Rasmussen, LEGO Group COO, discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow

Speaking at MIT, Rasmussen detailed the company’s manufacturing footprint, and the importance of balancing innovation, cost efficiency, and sustainability. | Continue reading


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New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports

The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays. | Continue reading


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Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible

Inaugural cohort of Tecnológico de Monterrey undergraduates participate in immersive practicum at MIT featuring desktop fiber-extrusion devices, or FrEDs. | Continue reading


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Taking the “training wheels” off clean energy

At the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, energy leaders from around the world discussed how to make green technologies competitive with fossil fuels. | Continue reading


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Surprise discovery could lead to improved catalysts for industrial reactions

Upending a long-held supposition, MIT researchers find a common catalyst works by cycling between two different forms. | Continue reading


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Engineers develop a way to mass manufacture nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors

Scaling up nanoparticle production could help scientists test new cancer treatments. | Continue reading


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Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data

More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana’s decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project. | Continue reading


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MIT welcomes 2025 Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow Jess Speedie

The fellowship supports research contributing to the field of planetary science and astronomy. | Continue reading


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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot capable of navigating under collapsed structures. | Continue reading


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Cem Tasan to lead the Materials Research Laboratory

Metallurgist brings experience in interdisciplinary collaboration and close engagement with industry. | Continue reading


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Looking under the hood at the brain’s language system

Associate Professor Evelina Fedorenko is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain’s language-processing machinery. | Continue reading


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Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges

This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems. | Continue reading


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On a quest for a better football helmet

Kodiak Brush ’17 went from MIT middle linebacker to designer of safer football helmets for all levels. | Continue reading


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Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers find

These big fish get most of their food from the ocean’s “twilight zone,” a deep, dark region the commercial fishing industry is eyeing with interest. | Continue reading


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Professor Emeritus Frederick Greene, influential chemist who focused on free radicals, dies at 97

The physical organic chemist and MIT professor for over 40 years is celebrated for his lasting impact on generations of chemists. | Continue reading


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Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

Professor of media technology honored for research in human-computer interaction that is considered both fundamental and influential. | Continue reading


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New Alliance for Data, Evaluation and Policy Training will advance data-driven decision-making in public policy

ADEPT brings together universities, governments, and other members to empower the next generation of policymakers with the tools to innovate, test, and scale effective public policies and programs. | Continue reading


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Collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to develop and scale sustainable energy systems

The MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance includes research, education, and career opportunities across the Institute. | Continue reading


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For plants, urban heat islands don’t mimic global warming

Scientists have found that trees in cities respond to higher temperatures differently than those in forests, potentially masking climate impacts. | Continue reading


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For this computer scientist, MIT Open Learning was the start of a life-changing journey

Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia. | Continue reading


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Preparing for a career at the forefront of the aerospace industry

In a new class, students design, build, and test an electric rocket engine turbopump, facing challenges they will experience as practicing engineers. | Continue reading


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Mapping the future of metamaterials

Mechanical metamaterials research demands interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, say researchers from MechE's Portela Lab. | Continue reading


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MIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes six current affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields. | Continue reading


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Making higher education more accessible to students in Pakistan

EduFi, founded by an MIT alumna, provides low-interest student loans to families in Pakistan so more can attend college. | Continue reading


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Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94

On the physics faculty for nearly 40 years and a member of the Center for Theoretical Physics, he focused on the interactions of hadrons and developed an R-matrix formulation of scattering theory. | Continue reading


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