In her new role, the professor of anthropology will seek to promote well-being and advancement within the SHASS community. | Continue reading
A new program is equipping every campus building with an automated external defibrillator. | Continue reading
PhD candidate Emma Bullock studies the local and global impacts of changing mineral levels in Arctic groundwater. | Continue reading
A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals. | Continue reading
MIT Sea Grant students apply machine learning to support local aquaculture hatcheries. | Continue reading
Lincoln Laboratory researchers are using AI to get a better picture of the atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface. Their techniques could improve weather and drought prediction. | Continue reading
Combining engineering, earth system science, and the social sciences, Course 1-12 prepares students to develop climate solutions. | Continue reading
The results of a six-year collaboration between MIT researchers, the FAA, and Massport will reduce aircraft noise in local communities while maintaining or improving fuel efficiency. | Continue reading
Engelward, Oliver, Rothman, and Vuletić are recognized for their efforts to advance science. | Continue reading
A communication system whose users reveal only a few verified aspects of their identity can empower less confident participants to speak up, researchers report. | Continue reading
The award recognizes exceptional distinction in teaching, research, and service at MIT. | Continue reading
The fellowship will incubate early-career science journalists, providing them with a year of skill-building freelance experience and dedicated mentorship. | Continue reading
Since 2020, K-CAI has innovated and tested climate policies in more than 35 countries and supported scale-ups that have reached over 15 million people. | Continue reading
The Engine Accelerator offers “tough tech” startups space, support, and a network to help them scale up. | Continue reading
Sensors that detect plant signaling molecules can reveal when crops are experiencing too much light or heat, or attack from insects or microbes. | Continue reading
MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Director Matthias Winkenbach uses AI to make vehicle routing more efficient and adaptable for unexpected events. | Continue reading
A CSAIL study highlights why it is so challenging to program a quantum computer to run a quantum algorithm, and offers a conceptual model for a more user-friendly quantum computer. | Continue reading
An MIT Values event showcases three women's career journeys and how they are paving the way for the next generation. | Continue reading
In research that may lead to next-generation airplanes and spacecraft, MIT engineers used carbon nanotubes to prevent cracking in multilayered composites. | Continue reading
Mark Harnett investigates how electrical activity in mammalian cortical cells helps to produce neural computations that give rise to behavior. | Continue reading
Postdoc Shaniel Bowen studies women's sexual anatomy and health while also working to interest young women in STEM careers. | Continue reading
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