Mechanical engineering alumni and married couple Larissa Nietner and Scott Nill started their relationship — and two companies — as MIT graduate students.
February 13, 2019MIT associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics describes the seamless flow of people, things, and materials.
February 11, 2019Casey Evans, Stewart Isaacs, and Jessica Zhu are honored for outstanding academic performance, civic contributions, and research.
February 8, 2019Undergraduate researchers discussed their projects at a well-attended poster session.
January 31, 2019MIT spinoff Raptor Maps uses machine-learning software to improve the maintenance of solar panels.
January 30, 2019Algorithm could help autonomous underwater vehicles explore risky but scientifically-rewarding environments.
January 30, 2019NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.
January 29, 2019An algorithm that teaches robot agents how to exchange advice to complete a task helps them learn faster.
January 29, 2019Model identifies instances when autonomous systems have learned from examples that may cause dangerous errors in the real world.
January 24, 2019New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
January 23, 2019Eleven new professors join the MIT community.
January 9, 2019Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets.
January 4, 2019"Magic-angle" graphene named 2018 Breakthrough of the Year; first ionic plane and earliest evidence of hydrogen gas named to top 10 breakthroughs.
December 27, 2018Platform offers the precision that shoebox-sized CubeSats need to beam down hefty data packets.
December 14, 2018Stewart Isaacs, a PhD student in AeroAstro and a world champion jump roper, credits his academic successes to his long career in competitive jump roping.
November 22, 2018The silent, lightweight aircraft doesn’t depend on fossil fuels.
November 21, 2018The School of Engineering’s faculty leadership weigh in on what the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will mean for their students and faculty.
November 11, 2018A roundup of MIT student research projects offers a glimpse of where computing is going next.
November 11, 2018Researchers find most fantasy sports are based on skill, not luck.
November 7, 2018Existing laser technology could be fashioned into Earth’s “porch light” to attract alien astronomers, study finds.
November 4, 2018