A biomedical engineer pivots from human movement to women’s health
Postdoc Shaniel Bowen studies women's sexual anatomy and health while also working to interest young women in STEM careers.
MIT tops among single-campus universities in US patents granted
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.
A new way to detect radiation involving cheap ceramics
Work by MIT engineers could lead to plethora of new applications, including better detectors for nuclear materials at ports.
A crossroads for computing at MIT
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building will form a new cluster of connectivity across a spectrum of disciplines in computing and artificial intelligence.
New AI method captures uncertainty in medical images
By providing plausible label maps for one medical image, the Tyche machine-learning model could help clinicians and researchers capture crucial information.
Improving drug development with a vast map of the immune system
Immunai’s founders were researchers at MIT when they launched their company to help predict how patients will respond to new treatments.
MIT-Mexico Program fosters cross-border collaboration
For two decades, MIT-Mexico has funded student internships and teaching, as well as faculty research collaborations.
With inspiration from “Tetris,” MIT researchers develop a better radiation detector
The device, based on simple tetromino shapes, could determine the direction and distance of a radiation source, with fewer detector pixels.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024
The Institute also ranks second in five subject areas.
Tackling cancer at the nanoscale
In MIT’s 2024 Killian Lecture, chemical engineer Paula Hammond described her groundbreaking work on nanoparticles designed to attack tumor cells.
A faster, better way to prevent an AI chatbot from giving toxic responses
Researchers create a curious machine-learning model that finds a wider variety of prompts for training a chatbot to avoid hateful or harmful output.
Extracting hydrogen from rocks
Iwnetim Abate aims to stimulate natural hydrogen production underground, potentially unearthing a new path to a cheap, carbon-free energy source.
When an antibiotic fails: MIT scientists are using AI to target “sleeper” bacteria
Most antibiotics target metabolically active bacteria, but with artificial intelligence, researchers can efficiently screen compounds that are lethal to dormant microbes.
MIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots
New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots.
For Julie Greenberg, a career of research, mentoring, and advocacy
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.