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Children have a blast in the MIT wind tunnel.

MIT's Open House attracts tens of thousands on Saturday

From major facilities and centers to out-of-the-way labs and classrooms, MIT opened its doors to the public.

April 24, 2016

The 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, opening May 28, includes numerous MIT faculty, students, and alumni.

A robust presence for MIT at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale

Faculty, researchers, graduate students, and alumni represented in 10 exhibitions and pavilions.

April 18, 2016

Tata Center announces new projects for 2016-2017

April 13, 2016

The Amphibian SCUBA diving simulator, a research project from the MIT Media Lab, lets users experience the underwater world through a high presence virtual reality system. The system includes a motion platform, Oculus Rift head-mounted display, snorkel with sensors, leg-motion sensors, and gloves that enable motion detection, temperature simulation, and physical feedback of objects.

Experiencing underwater worlds, virtually

"Amphibian" SCUBA simulator advances the field of virtual reality while exploring the relationship between diving and disability.

April 11, 2016

April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus

Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future event offers a playful introduction to research at MIT.

April 5, 2016

All the winners of the 2016 MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, held on April 2.

App that provides “nutrition receipts” for groceries wins IDEAS Global Challenge

Twelve teams competing in social-entrepreneurship competition split $97,500 in cash prizes.

April 4, 2016

“In the 155 years of its existence, this Institute has not only withstood and adapted to, but also become a leader of constant progress and change,” said Armenian President Serzh A. Sargsyan (pictured).

President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT

Tour includes meeting with MIT President L. Rafael Reif, visit to Media Lab.

March 30, 2016

MIT Scaling Development Ventures keynote speaker Hannes van Rensburg (left), founder of Fundamo; and special guest speaker Ann Mei Chang, chief innovation officer and the executive director of the U.S. Global Development Lab.

MIT Scaling Development Ventures conference set for April 1

More than 40 speakers from MIT and around the world will be featured in plenary and breakout sessions in this fourth-annual conference on innovation in poverty alleviation.

March 28, 2016

MIT alumnus Sidhant Pai ’14, 2014 IDEAS Winner, ProtoPrint, India. ProtoPrint raises the income of waste collectors in India by turning recycled plastic into 3-D printing filament.

Celebrating 15 years of innovating for the greater good

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge has helped launch 128 student-led projects around the world.

March 25, 2016

Members of the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture Group devised a new approach to image separation in photographs. Their system fires light into a scene and gauges the differences between the arrival times of light reflected by nearby objects — such as panes of glass — and more distant objects.

Reflection-removing camera

Device uses depth sensor and signal processing to capture clear images through windows.

March 25, 2016

Sourcemap gives companies a visual map of all connected global supplier locations for their products. The software also pulls news feeds on significant political events or environmental disasters to alert companies to potential interruptions.

Plotting the complex path of products

Startup’s software maps out convoluted supply chains for companies and consumers

March 23, 2016

Architecture symposium March 30 and 31: Exploring the campus then, now, next

Event welcomes more than 20 speakers over four sessions on designing places for inventing the future.

March 15, 2016

The Emerging Worlds innovation lab in Mumbai is a home away from home for MIT graduate students (l-r) Alicia Chong, Mrinal Mohit, Tristan Swedish, and Shantanu Sinha.

Innovating for billions

Emerging Worlds, a Media Lab and Tata Center initiative, seeks to catalyze change on a massive scale.

March 9, 2016

Empatica's wristband, called Embrace (pictured here), is “a consumer-looking, but medical-quality device” for monitoring stress and seizures, Rosalind Picard says.

Wristband detects and alerts for seizures, monitors stress

Wearable tracks increased skin conductance that signals stress, helps identify dangerous seizures.