The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT Professor Markus Buehler marked the occasion […]

Anesthestic drugs act on the brain, but most anesthesiologists rely on heart rate, respiratory rate, and movement to infer whether surgery […]

Disinformation campaigns are not new — think of wartime propaganda used to sway public opinion against an enemy. What is new, […]

Matthew Johnston was a physics senior looking to postpone his entry into adulting. He had an intense four years at MIT; […]

Health care is at a junction, a point where artificial intelligence tools are being introduced to all areas of the space. […]

Whether it’s computer chips, smartphone components, or camera parts, the hardware in many products is constantly getting smaller. The trend is […]

Improved computing power and an exponential increase in data have helped fuel the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. But as AI […]

In his research and in other parts of life, Ankur Moitra likes to journey off the beaten path. His explorer mentality […]

It’s no secret that a manufacturer’s ability to maintain and ideally increase production capability is the basis for long-run competitive success. […]

Discovering a drug, material, or anything new requires finding and understanding molecules. It’s a time- and labor-intensive process, which can be […]

Robots can solve a Rubik’s cube and navigate the rugged terrain of Mars, but they struggle with simple tasks like rolling […]

When General Richard D. Clarke, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), visited MIT in fall 2019, he had artificial […]

In Jenna Sutela’s work, which ranges from computational poetry to experimental music to installations and performance, the MIT Center for Art, […]

Four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 28 around the world to have been named to a competitive Schmidt Science Fellowship, an award […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) recently announced the names of 83 scientists who have been selected for their 2021 Early […]

MIT’s Hockfield Court is bordered on the west by the ultramodern Stata Center, with its reflective, silver alcoves that jut off […]

For most people, the task of identifying an object, picking it up, and placing it somewhere else is trivial. For robots, […]

As the Chemistry-Kayak (affectionately known as the ChemYak) swept over the Arctic estuary waters, Victoria Preston was glued to a monitor […]

Boiling is not just for heating up dinner. It’s also for cooling things down. Turning liquid into gas removes energy from […]

Take it from U.S. Air Force Captain Kyle McAlpin when he says that scheduling C-17 aircraft crews is a headache. An […]

When someone close to rising MIT junior Eeshan Tripathii and his sister, engineer Vini Tripathii, had their hand amputated, the siblings […]

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has awarded two inaugural chaired appointments to Dina Katabi and Aleksander Madry in […]

As the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, we live in a richly connected world, facilitating not only the efficient spread of a […]

Launched in October 2020, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology is intended to demonstrate how the convergence […]

The societal impacts of technological change can be seen in many domains, from messenger RNA vaccines and automation to drones and […]

David Kaiser and Julie Shah are on a mission to prepare students and facilitate research to address the broad challenges and […]

As a teenager, Kristy Johnson thought she had her career all planned out. Raised in a small town in Indiana, she […]

The justice system, banks, and private companies use algorithms to make decisions that have profound impacts on people’s lives. Unfortunately, those […]

If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete […]

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease usually diagnosed in young boys, gradually weakens muscles across the body until the […]

Creating a good customer experience increasingly means creating a good digital experience. But metrics like pageviews and clicks offer limited insight […]

Routing is one of the most studied problems in operations research; even small improvements in routing efficiency can save companies money […]

MIT PhD students Aziza Almanakly and Belinda Li have been selected as the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) […]

Scientist, writer, policy advocate, YouTuber – before Jordan Harrod established her many successful career identities, her first role was as a […]

MIT spinoff OpenSpace invented automated 360-degree video jobsite capture and mapping. “It’s not exactly an amazing observation,” says CEO Jeevan Kalanithi, […]

Neural networks (NNs) are increasingly being used to predict new materials, the rate and yield of chemical reactions, and drug-target interactions, […]

When Obiageli “Oby” Nwodoh arrived at MIT, she already felt at home. A native of Bedford, Massachusetts, she was the daughter […]

Dina Katabi is designing the next generation of smart wireless devices that will sit in the background of a given room, […]

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) awarded their 2021 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for the Northeast region to […]

Electronic health records have been widely adopted with the hope they would save time and improve the quality of patient care. […]

The existential threat of Covid-19 has highlighted an acute need to develop working therapeutics against emerging health concerns. One of the […]

Getting a quick and accurate reading of an X-ray or some other medical images can be vital to a patient’s health […]

The share of federal spending on infrastructure has reached an all-time low, falling from 30 percent in 1960 to just 12 […]

A busy commuter is ready to walk out the door, only to realize they’ve misplaced their keys and must search through […]

The proliferation of big data across domains, from banking to health care to environmental monitoring, has spurred increasing demand for machine […]