MIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also have thoughts on whether five-rotation jumps are humanly possible. | Continue reading
Top worldwide honors span disciplines across three MIT schools for the second year in a row. | Continue reading
The flexible material could enable on-demand heat dissipation for electronics, fabrics, and buildings. | Continue reading
For several decades beginning in the 1950s, the Killian Report set the frontiers of military technology, intelligence gathering, national security policy, and global affairs. | Continue reading
Removing just a tiny fraction of the crowdsourced data that informs online ranking platforms can significantly change the results. | Continue reading
MIT faculty join The Curiosity Desk to discuss football, math, Olympic figure skating, AI and the quest to cure ovarian cancer. | Continue reading
The first complete charting of foot traffic in any US city can be used for infrastructure decisions and safety improvements. | Continue reading
A new study suggests aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought. | Continue reading
Former Chemical Engineering Practice School director recognized by the National Academy of Engineering for decades of leadership advancing immersive, industry-centered learning at MIT. | Continue reading
Researchers find a component of the brain’s dedicated language network in the cerebellum, a region better known for coordinating movement. | Continue reading
EnCompass executes AI agent programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts, finding the best set of outputs generated by an LLM. It could help coders work with AI agents more efficiently. | Continue reading
Based on a virus-like particle built with a DNA scaffold, the approach could generate broadly neutralizing antibody responses against HIV or influenza. | Continue reading
Professor of the practice Carlo Ratti designed this year’s Olympic torch with the ethos and principles he brings to his work at MIT. | Continue reading
He joins Nikos Trichakis in guiding the cross-cutting initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. | Continue reading
Torralba’s research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and human visual perception. | Continue reading
Professor James Collins discusses how collaboration has been central to his research into combining computational predictions with new experimental platforms. | Continue reading
New framework supports design and fabrication of compliant materials such as printable textiles and functional foams, letting users predict deformation and material failure. | Continue reading
New framework supports design and fabrication of compliant materials such as printable textiles and functional foams, letting users predict deformation and material failure. | Continue reading
For the first time, the new scope allowed physicists to observe terahertz “jiggles” in a superconducting fluid. | Continue reading
Members of the MIT curling and figure skating clubs are embracing the 2026 Winter Olympics, an international showcase for their — and many other — cherished winter sports. | Continue reading
The MIT senior will pursue a master’s degree at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall. | Continue reading
Architecture students bring new forms of human-machine interaction into the kitchen. | Continue reading
WITEC is working to develop the first wearable ultrasound imaging system to monitor chronic conditions in real-time, with the goal of enabling earlier detection and timely intervention. | Continue reading
WITEC is working to develop the first wearable ultrasound imaging system to monitor chronic conditions in real-time, with the goal of enabling earlier detection and timely intervention. | Continue reading
Two models more accurately replicate the physiology of the liver, offering a new way to test treatments for fat buildup. | Continue reading
Joshua Bennett’s new book profiles American prodigies, examining the personal and social dimensions of cultivating promise. | Continue reading
MIT engineers are using recycled plastic to 3D print construction-grade floor trusses. | Continue reading
Somatostatin-expressing neurons follow a unique trajectory when forming connections in the visual cortex that may help establish the conditions needed for sensory experience to refine circuits. | Continue reading
MIT researchers’ DiffSyn model offers recipes for synthesizing new materials, enabling faster experimentation and a shorter journey from hypothesis to use. | Continue reading
The new system could be used at home or in doctors’ offices to scan people who are at high risk for breast cancer. | Continue reading
As AI technology advances, a new interdisciplinary course seeks to equip students with foundational critical thinking skills in computing. | Continue reading
Founded by three MIT alumni, Gensaic uses AI-guided protein design to deliver RNA and other therapeutic molecules to specific cells or areas of the body. | Continue reading
The gas-filtering membranes developed by MIT spinout Osmoses offer an alternative to energy-hungry thermal separation for chemicals and fuels. | Continue reading
A new book by Professor Ted Gibson brings together his years of teaching and research to detail the rules of how words combine. | Continue reading
The MIT lecturer and artist-in-residence transformed hundreds of inscribed and hammered steel plates into “Amulet,” a soaring public artwork at City Hall Plaza. | Continue reading
Munip Utama applies knowledge from the MITx MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy to his efforts supporting disadvantaged students in Indonesia. | Continue reading
By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing. | Continue reading
An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership. | Continue reading
With a focus on metallurgy and fabrication, Pappalardo Apprentices assist their peers with machining, hand-tool use, brainstorming, and more, while expanding their own skills. | Continue reading
MIT physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, confirming the plasma behaves like a liquid. | Continue reading
Recent summit at MIT brought together educators, policymakers, and community partners, featuring resilience expert Shaka Senghor on transforming lives through learning and redefining pathways to freedom. | Continue reading
By analyzing how Myobacterium tuberculosis interacts with the immune system, the associate professor hopes to find new vaccine targets to help eliminate the disease. | Continue reading
MIT physicist shares 400,000-euro award for influential work on “magic-angle” graphene. | Continue reading
Researchers uncover a hidden mechanism that allows cancer to develop aggressive mutations. | Continue reading
Professor, mentor, and leader at MIT for more than 50 years shaped fundamental understandings of cell adhesion, the extracellular matrix, and molecular mechanisms of metastasis. | Continue reading
New “biomimetic” model of brain circuits and function at multiple scales produced naturalistic dynamics and learning, and even identified curious behavior by some neurons. | Continue reading
The MIT senior will spend the 2026-27 year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, studying global affairs. | Continue reading
Mini microwave sounders developed at Lincoln Laboratory, demonstrated on a NASA mission, and now transferred to industry, are expanding storm-forecasting capabilities. | Continue reading