How MIT’s online resources provide a “highly motivating, even transformative experience”

Charalampos Sampalis explores all that MIT Open Learning has to offer while growing his career in Athens, Greece. | Continue reading


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Students learn theater design through the power of play

MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs, | Continue reading


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A framework for solving parabolic partial differential equations

A new algorithm solves complicated partial differential equations by breaking them down into simpler problems, potentially guiding computer graphics and geometry processing.
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Designing better delivery for medical therapies

MD/PhD student Sayo Eweje seeks to develop new technologies for delivering RNA and protein therapies directly to the body’s cells. | Continue reading


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Making a measurable economic impact

Saeed Miganeh’s work at MIT is helping him answer important questions about designing effective programs for poverty mitigation and economic growth in African countries. | Continue reading


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Faces of MIT: Jessica Tam

The senior strategic sourcing analyst is responsible for everything related to travel and hospitality that involves purchasing at MIT. | Continue reading


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First AI + Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency”

The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries. | Continue reading


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President Kornbluth welcomes the Class of 2028

“Empathy and respect are central values here,” Kornbluth tells MIT’s newest students and their families at the President’s Convocation. | Continue reading


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Scientists find neurons that process language on different timescales

In language-processing areas of the brain, some cell populations respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words. | Continue reading


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Pursuing the secrets of a stealthy parasite

By unraveling the genetic pathways that help Toxoplasma gondii persist in human cells, Sebastian Lourido hopes to find new ways to treat toxoplasmosis. | Continue reading


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Study of disordered rock salts leads to battery breakthrough

A new family of integrated rock salt-polyanion cathodes opens door to low-cost, high-energy storage. | Continue reading


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Toward a code-breaking quantum computer

Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography. | Continue reading


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Uphill battles: Across the country in 75 days

Amulya Aluru ’23, MEng ’24 and the MIT Spokes have spent the summer spreading science, over 3,000 miles on two wheels. | Continue reading


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3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield

Rising senior and Army ROTC cadet Alexander Edwards and Aneal Krishnan ’02 discuss a new UROP fellowship with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. | Continue reading


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Duane Boning named vice provost for international activities

With extensive international outreach experience as a faculty member and program leader, Boning brings a spirit of curiosity and collaboration to his new role. | Continue reading


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Q&A: Undergraduate admissions in the wake of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling

Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill provides an update on MIT’s newest incoming class. | Continue reading


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Study reveals the benefits and downside of fasting

Fasting helps intestinal stem cells regenerate and heal injuries but also leads to a higher risk of cancer in mice, MIT researchers report. | Continue reading


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MIT engineers’ new theory could improve the design and operation of wind farms

The first comprehensive model of rotor aerodynamics could improve the way turbine blades and wind farms are designed and how wind turbines are controlled. | Continue reading


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Engineering and matters of the heart

Professor Ellen Roche is creating the next generation of medical devices to help repair hearts, lungs, and other tissues. | Continue reading


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Creating connection with science communication

Sophie Hartley wants to help people learn about the importance of natural resources and land management through science writing. | Continue reading


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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

The convoluted “legalese” used in legal documents conveys a special sense of authority, and even non-lawyers have learned to wield it. | Continue reading


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More durable metals for fusion power reactors

MIT researchers have found a way to make structural materials last longer under the harsh conditions inside a fusion reactor. | Continue reading


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3 Questions: How to prove humanity online

AI agents could soon become indistinguishable from humans online. Could “personhood credentials” protect people against digital imposters? | Continue reading


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When the lights turned on in the universe

By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, Dominika Ďurovčíková is illuminating an early moment when galaxies could first be observed. | Continue reading


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Christine Ortiz named director of MIT Technology and Policy Program

Ortiz is an internationally recognized researcher in biotechnology and biomaterials, advanced and additive manufacturing, and sustainable and socially-directed materials design. | Continue reading


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MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots

These zinc-air batteries, smaller than a grain of sand, could help miniscule robots sense and respond to their environment. | Continue reading


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New open-source tool helps to detangle the brain

The software tool NeuroTrALE is designed to quickly and efficiently process large amounts of brain imaging data semi-automatically. | Continue reading


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Building bidirectional bridges

MIT’s Office of Graduate Education hosts Summit on Creating Inclusive Pathways to the PhD | Continue reading


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Study: Rocks from Mars’ Jezero Crater, which likely predate life on Earth, contain signs of water

The presence of organic matter is inconclusive, but the rocks could be scientists’ best chance at finding remnants of ancient Martian life. | Continue reading


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An implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses

The new device, which can be implanted under the skin, rapidly releases naloxone when an overdose is detected. | Continue reading


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MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems

The approach can detect anomalies in data recorded over time, without the need for any training. | Continue reading


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Study reveals ways in which 40Hz sensory stimulation may preserve brain’s “white matter”

Gamma frequency light and sound stimulation preserves myelination in mouse models and reveals molecular mechanisms that may underlie the benefit. | Continue reading


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Faculty receive promotions in the School of Architecture and Planning

A wide range of faculty disciplines showcases the breadth of research and scholarship across the school. | Continue reading


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Cynthia Griffin Wolff, acclaimed biographer and longtime MIT professor, dies at 87

The scholar’s body of work included two literary biographies of great American writers. | Continue reading


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Risk, culture, and control

Historian Caley Horan studies commerce and uncertainty in modern American life. | Continue reading


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A new approach to fine-tuning quantum materials

An MIT-led group shows how to achieve precise control over the properties of Weyl semimetals and other exotic substances. | Continue reading


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D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

The innovation, which employs beeswax to maintain consistent heating, is the result of three years of co-design with Cameroonian poultry farmers. | Continue reading


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MIT chemists synthesize plant-derived molecules that hold potential as pharmaceuticals

Large multi-ring-containing molecules known as oligocyclotryptamines have never been produced in the lab until now. | Continue reading


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Alex Shalek named director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

Professor who uses a cross-disciplinary approach to understand human diseases on a molecular and cellular level succeeds Elazer Edelman. | Continue reading


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New tool empowers pavement life-cycle decision-making while reducing data collection burden

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub research presents a streamlined pavement life-cycle assessment tool to enable a large set of stakeholders to conduct environmental analysis of pavements. | Continue reading


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A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions

SimPLE learns to pick, regrasp, and place objects using the objects’ computer-aided design model. | Continue reading


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With sustainable cement, startup aims to eliminate gigatons of CO₂

Sublime Systems, founded by Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and former postdoc Leah Ellis, has developed a sustainable way to make one of the world’s most common materials. | Continue reading


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3 Questions: Preparing students in MIT’s naval ROTC program

“MIT graduates are top performers in the fleet, and the rigorous four-year program they complete prepares them to be ready to respond to future technical and leadership challenges,” says Commander Jennifer Huck. | Continue reading


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Going Dutch on climate

MIT students get first-hand view of climate-proofing the Netherlands. | Continue reading


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Dimitris Bertsimas named vice provost for open learning

Leveraging more than 35 years of experience at MIT, Bertsimas will work with partners across the Institute to transform teaching and learning on and off campus. | Continue reading


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Study: Flying keeps getting safer

Reflecting a “Moore’s Law of aviation,” commercial flight has become roughly twice as safe each decade since the 1960s; Covid-19 added a wrinkle, however. | Continue reading


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Tracking emissions to help companies reduce their environmental footprint

Context Labs, led by Dan Harple SM ’13, uses AI-enabled data analytics and verification to help companies measure their true greenhouse emissions and document reductions. | Continue reading


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The art of the enzyme

Bioengineer and artist David Kastner seeks to unlock the secrets of catalysis and improve science communication through eye-catching visuals. | Continue reading


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