For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
When it comes to emissions, individual driving patterns matter as much as how “green” the regional electricity mix is, MIT researchers report.
MIT student Jack Carson named 2026 Udall Scholar
The Udall Foundation identifies and rewards future leaders in tribal public policy, Indigenous health policy, and the environment.
Photonics advance could enable compact, high-performance lidar sensors
With a novel design, MIT researchers overcame a stubborn problem that has limited the effectiveness of chip-based systems for lidar.
Method for stress-testing cloud computing algorithms helps avoid network failures
The “MetaEase” technique provides a heads-up to potential scenarios that could cause long wait-times or outages.
Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI
Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.
It took 40 years for technology to catch up to this zipper design
An old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new “Y-zipper,” a three-sided fastener that snaps gear, robots, and art into shape at the push of a button.
MIT affiliates awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships
Afreen Siddiqi, Kathleen Thelen, and Vinod Vaikuntanathan, along with alumna Kate Manne, are appointed to the 2026 class of “trail-blazing fellows.”
Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models
A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.
The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
Building on a long-standing MIT–IBM collaboration, the new lab will chart the convergence of AI, algorithms, and quantum computing.
Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
A new method could bring more accurate and efficient AI models to high-stakes applications like health care and finance, even in under-resourced settings.
Self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies
MIT researchers leveraged a surprise discovery to devise a faster and more precise biomedical imaging technique.
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.
MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone
New dataset of 30,000-plus competition math problems from 47 countries gives AI researchers a harder test — and students worldwide a better training ground.
New chip can protect wireless biomedical devices from quantum attacks
Ultra-efficient chip design enables extremely strong cryptography algorithms to run on energy-constrained edge devices.
Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”
A new training method improves the reliability of AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.