For 10th consecutive year, the Institute ranks No. 2 among all colleges and No. 1 among colleges with one main campus, underlying the impact of innovation and critical role of technology transfer. | Continue reading
Work by MIT engineers could lead to plethora of new applications, including better detectors for nuclear materials at ports. | Continue reading
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building will form a new cluster of connectivity across a spectrum of disciplines in computing and artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Graduate student Hammaad Adam is working to increase the supply of organs available for transplants, saving lives and improving health equity. | Continue reading
By providing plausible label maps for one medical image, the Tyche machine-learning model could help clinicians and researchers capture crucial information. | Continue reading
Immunai’s founders were researchers at MIT when they launched their company to help predict how patients will respond to new treatments. | Continue reading
For two decades, MIT-Mexico has funded student internships and teaching, as well as faculty research collaborations. | Continue reading
The device, based on simple tetromino shapes, could determine the direction and distance of a radiation source, with fewer detector pixels. | Continue reading
The Institute also ranks second in five subject areas. | Continue reading
In MIT’s 2024 Killian Lecture, chemical engineer Paula Hammond described her groundbreaking work on nanoparticles designed to attack tumor cells. | Continue reading
Researchers create a curious machine-learning model that finds a wider variety of prompts for training a chatbot to avoid hateful or harmful output. | Continue reading
A new study finds sustained pattern changes — with a lot of regional variation. | Continue reading
She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?” | Continue reading
Hundreds of observers took advantage of great weather to view the 2024 partial eclipse. | Continue reading
Iwnetim Abate aims to stimulate natural hydrogen production underground, potentially unearthing a new path to a cheap, carbon-free energy source. | Continue reading
Most antibiotics target metabolically active bacteria, but with artificial intelligence, researchers can efficiently screen compounds that are lethal to dormant microbes. | Continue reading
New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots. | Continue reading
The advance could help make 3D printing more sustainable, enabling printing with renewable or recyclable materials that are difficult to characterize. | Continue reading
The longtime academic leader of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology reflects on her time spent guiding students at the intersection of medicine and engineering. | Continue reading
An MRI method purported to detect neurons’ rapid impulses produces its own misleading signals instead, an MIT study finds. | Continue reading
MIT scientists have tackled key obstacles to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for the next generation of energy-efficient computers. | Continue reading
Brian Mernoff of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics offers best practices to get the most out of your eclipse experience. | Continue reading
In a first, four different technologies will monitor changes in the upper atmosphere, locally and across the continent, as the sun’s radiation dips. | Continue reading
Seron Electronics, founded by Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17, makes research equipment with applications including microelectronics, clean energy, optics, biomedicine, and beyond. | Continue reading
For more than 50 years, the MIT Music Theater Guild has put on epic performances that involve students from every part of campus. | Continue reading
The low-cost hardware outperforms state-of-the-art versions and could someday enable an affordable, in-home device for health monitoring. | Continue reading
MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain. | Continue reading
Study shows neutrons can bind to nanoscale atomic clusters known as quantum dots. The finding may provide insights into material properties and quantum effects. | Continue reading
A new method to measure homophily in large group interactions offers insights into how groups might interact in the future. | Continue reading
Made possible by an ongoing fundraising initiative, the new program prioritizes building resources for economics faculty research. | Continue reading
PhD student Lavender Tessmer applies computation to create textiles that behave in novel ways. | Continue reading
The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost. | Continue reading
Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation. | Continue reading
MIT CSAIL researchers are using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language generation in language models. | Continue reading
New research by a team of MIT engineers offers a guide for fine-tuning specific material properties. | Continue reading
Professor Rafael Jaramillo relishes the challenge of developing new, environmentally beneficial semiconductor materials. | Continue reading
Amplified Industries, founded by Sebastien Mannai SM ’14, PhD ’18, helps oil field operators eliminate spills and stop methane leaks. | Continue reading
Global warming potential of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is more than 24,000 times that of carbon dioxide. | Continue reading
International technology company becomes sustaining member of industry group. | Continue reading
The 16 finalists — representing every school at MIT — will explore generative AI’s impact on privacy, art, drug discovery, aging, and more. | Continue reading
Study shows perceptions of “good” schools are heavily dependent on the preparation of the students entering them. | Continue reading
The junior, who is majoring in computer science and molecular biology, wants to “make it a norm to lift others as I continue to climb.” | Continue reading
Professor of applied economics Catherine Wolfram balances global energy demands and the pressing need for decarbonization. | Continue reading
Analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas. | Continue reading
MIT spinout Strand Therapeutics has developed a new class of mRNA molecules that can sense where they are in the body, for more targeted and powerful treatments. | Continue reading
Screen-reader users can upload a dataset and create customized data representations that combine visualization, textual description, and sonification. | Continue reading
A catalyst tethered by DNA boosts the efficiency of the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO, a building block for many chemical compounds. | Continue reading
Itz’at STEAM Academy, an effort between MIT and the Belize Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology, pushes the boundaries of education through innovative methodologies. | Continue reading