Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli, Abigail Schipper ’24, and Rachel Zhang ’21 will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University in the U.K. | Continue reading
New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn’t prevent further exploration, even if doing so reduces performance. | Continue reading
Findings may help predict how rain and irrigation systems launch particles and pathogens from watery surfaces, with implications for industry, agriculture, and public health. | Continue reading
Assistant Professor César Terrer discusses pioneering volcano research to track carbon dynamics in tropical forests. | Continue reading
FragFold, developed by MIT Biology researchers, is a computational method with potential for impact on biological research and therapeutic applications. | Continue reading
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments. | Continue reading
Colleagues remember the longtime MIT professor as a supportive, energetic collaborator who seemed to know everyone at the Institute. | Continue reading
They identified proteins that influence splicing of about half of all human introns, allowing for more complex types of gene regulation. | Continue reading
Researchers developed a scalable, low-cost device that can generate high-power terahertz waves on a chip, without bulky silicon lenses. | Continue reading
MIT engineers propose a new “local electricity market” to tap into the power potential of homeowners’ grid-edge devices. | Continue reading
A new MIT study identifies steps that can lower not only emissions, but also costs, across the combined electric power and natural gas industries that now supply heating fuels. | Continue reading
For the past decade, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab has strengthened MIT faculty efforts in water and food research and innovation. | Continue reading
Eight researchers, along with 13 additional alumni, are honored for significant contributions to engineering research, practice, and education. | Continue reading
An alumna and longtime faculty member, Barnhart helped lead the Institute for the last decade, serving as both chancellor and provost. | Continue reading
The new initiative will allow selected faculty to focus on their research, build community, and pursue mentorship opportunities. | Continue reading
ReviveMed uses AI to gather large-scale data on metabolites — molecules like lipids, cholesterol, and sugar — to match patients with therapeutics. | Continue reading
A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language. | Continue reading
Fusion’s future depends on decoding plasma’s mysteries. Simulations can help keep research on track and reveal more efficient ways to generate fusion energy. | Continue reading
Physicist Salvatore Vitale is looking for new sources of gravitational waves, to reach beyond what we can learn about the universe through light alone. | Continue reading
They combined a blend of slimy and sticky proteins to produce a fast-acting, bacteria-blocking, waterproof adhesive for use in biomedical applications. | Continue reading
Students in a unique MIT course taught by research scientist, DJ, and game designer Philip Tan explore DJ’ing and tech culture with a hands-on approach. | Continue reading
A new MIT class explores the pedagogical possibilities of dance. | Continue reading
Whitehead Institute and CSAIL researchers created a machine-learning model to predict and generate protein localization, with implications for understanding and remedying disease. | Continue reading
The nitrogen product developed by the company, which was co-founded by Professor Chris Voigt, is being used across millions of acres of American farmland. | Continue reading
Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope help to explain the cluster’s mysterious starburst, usually only seen in younger galaxies. | Continue reading
A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation. | Continue reading
Professors Maria Yang and Kenneth Oye are honored as “Committed to Caring” for their mentorship of graduate students. | Continue reading
Ideal for propelling tiny satellites, the lightweight devices could be produced on board a spacecraft and cost much less than traditional thrusters. | Continue reading
Alumnus is the first major donor to support the building since Stephen A. Schwarzman’s foundational gift. | Continue reading
In a new MIT course co-taught by EECS and philosophy professors, students tackle moral dilemmas of the digital age. | Continue reading
New “Oreo” method from MIT CSAIL researchers removes footprints that reveal where code is stored before a hacker can see them. | Continue reading
Xiao Wang’s studies of how and where RNA is translated could lead to the development of better RNA therapeutics and vaccines. | Continue reading
Butlr, founded by former Media Lab researchers, uses insights from thermal sensors to make buildings safe and efficient. | Continue reading
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions. | Continue reading
A deep neural network called CHAIS may soon replace invasive procedures like catheterization as the new gold standard for monitoring heart health. | Continue reading
How the late Woodie Flowers helped create a new foundation for “the MIT way” of teaching. | Continue reading
New faculty member Kaiming He discusses AI’s role in lowering barriers between scientific fields and fostering collaboration across scientific disciplines. | Continue reading
With technology developed at MIT, 6K is helping to bring critical materials production back to the U.S. without toxic byproducts. | Continue reading
MIT researchers developed a new approach for assessing predictions with a spatial dimension, like forecasting weather or mapping air pollution. | Continue reading
Tissue processing advance can label proteins at the level of individual cells across large samples just as fast and uniformly as in dissociated single cells. | Continue reading
Assistant Professor Sara Beery is using automation to improve monitoring of migrating salmon in the Pacific Northwest. | Continue reading
MIT oceanographer and biogeochemist Andrew Babbin has voyaged around the globe to investigate marine microbes and their influence on ocean health. | Continue reading
In a report on the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, physicists say these technologies are “not a magic bullet, but also not a no-go.” | Continue reading
Specialist in paleoclimate and geochronology is known for contributions to education and community. | Continue reading
By determing how readily electron pairs flow through this material, scientists have taken a big step toward understanding its remarkable properties. | Continue reading
Students can excel at mental math in marketplace jobs but struggle with formal math in the classroom, and vice versa. | Continue reading
Engineer and historian David Mindell’s new book provides a roadmap for thinking about the future of industry. | Continue reading
Doug Field SM ’92, Ford’s chief of EVs and digital design, leads the legacy carmaker into the software-enabled, battery-propelled future. | Continue reading