MIT returns to the Venice Architecture Biennale
Faculty, students, and alumni contribute as curators and exhibitors at the world’s premier forum for architecture and design.
Media Lab
Startup aims to democratize synthetic biology
Alumna’s mini-lab kits include all necessary tools and materials for anyone to start engineering microbes.
Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”
Ambitious new piece in his “City Symphony” series features the birthplace of American democracy.
Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently”
Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations.
Measuring the economy with location data
Startup’s platform crunches anonymized smartphone GPS data to understand how people shop, work, and live.
Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award
MIT scientist is among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics.
Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog
Computational photography could solve a problem that bedevils self-driving cars.
Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information.
Edward Boyden named inaugural Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology
Neuroengineering leader appointed to new professorship at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
Seeing the brain's electrical activity
Fluorescent sensor allows imaging of neurons' electrical communications, without electrodes.
Eight MIT researchers win 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty from six MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence systems
Examination of facial-analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light-skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark-skinned women.
Cornel West advocates the “examined life” on campus
In MIT talk, prominent philosopher urges self-reflection to keep academic institutions vital and fair.
Robotic interiors
Smart furniture transforms spaces in tiny apartments into bedrooms, work spaces, or closets.
Prototypes for the new space age
The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative shares results and next steps from its first zero gravity research mission.