Engineers enable a drone to determine its position in the dark and indoors
A new low-power system using radio frequency waves takes a major step toward autonomous, indoor drone navigation.
Pivot Bio is using microbial nitrogen to make agriculture more sustainable
The nitrogen product developed by the company, which was co-founded by Professor Chris Voigt, is being used across millions of acres of American farmland.
Cultivators of research
Professors Maria Yang and Kenneth Oye are honored as “Committed to Caring” for their mentorship of graduate students.
Gift from Sebastian Man ’79, SM ’80 supports MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing building
Alumnus is the first major donor to support the building since Stephen A. Schwarzman’s foundational gift.
To keep hardware safe, cut out the code’s clues
New “Oreo” method from MIT CSAIL researchers removes footprints that reveal where code is stored before a hacker can see them.
Puzzling out climate change
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
Engineering joy
How the late Woodie Flowers helped create a new foundation for “the MIT way” of teaching.
Creating a common language
New faculty member Kaiming He discusses AI’s role in lowering barriers between scientific fields and fostering collaboration across scientific disciplines.
Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts
MIT researchers developed a new approach for assessing predictions with a spatial dimension, like forecasting weather or mapping air pollution.
MIT method enables ultrafast protein labeling of tens of millions of densely packed cells
Tissue processing advance can label proteins at the level of individual cells across large samples just as fast and uniformly as in dissociated single cells.
Streamlining data collection for improved salmon population management
Assistant Professor Sara Beery is using automation to improve monitoring of migrating salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle” graphene
By determining how readily electron pairs flow through this material, scientists have taken a big step toward understanding its remarkable properties.
Timeless virtues, new technologies
Engineer and historian David Mindell’s new book provides a roadmap for thinking about the future of industry.
Driving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
Doug Field SM ’92, Ford’s chief of EVs and digital design, leads the legacy carmaker into the software-enabled, battery-propelled future.
Mishael Quraishi named 2025 Churchill Scholar
The MIT senior will pursue a master’s program at Cambridge University in the UK.