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Helping power-system planners prepare for an unknown future

Macro, a modeling tool developed by the MIT Energy Initiative, enables energy-system planners to explore options for developing infrastructure to support decarbonized, reliable, and low-cost power grids.

December 3, 2025

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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost

The new design from MIT engineers could pump up many biohybrid builds.

December 1, 2025

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Celebrating the advancement of technology leadership through policy analysis and guidance

The MIT Technology and Policy Program marked 50 years with a symposium exploring its history of education, research, and impact — while looking ahead to technology policy issues of the future.

November 25, 2025

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Mind, hand, and harvest

A volunteer-driven pilot program brings low-cost organic produce to the MIT community.

November 25, 2025

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How artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future

AI supports the clean energy transition as it manages power grid operations, helps plan infrastructure investments, guides development of novel materials, and more.

November 24, 2025

Vincent Jackow and Aleks Banaś stand behind their wood-and-stone model of a building

How a building creates and defines a region

A new MIT course explores how built environments can both emerge from and reveal the internal dynamics of their geographic context.

November 19, 2025

Kaidi Liu, Zaynab Eltaib, and Olivia Fiol pause their work on a raised garden bed to smile at the camera. At least five other beds are visible in the frame.

Returning farming to city centers

4.182 (Resilient Urbanism: Green Commons in the City), a new subject funded by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), teaches students about sustainable agriculture in urban areas.

November 13, 2025

Phillip Isola portrait in front of a math-filled white board.

Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence

Associate Professor Phillip Isola studies the ways in which intelligent machines “think,” in an effort to safely integrate AI into human society.

November 11, 2025

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Giving buildings an “MRI” to make them more energy-efficient and resilient

Founded by a team from MIT, Lamarr.AI uses drones, thermal imaging, and AI to help property owners make targeted investments in their buildings.

November 7, 2025

Charting the future of AI, from safer answers to faster thinking

MIT PhD students who interned with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Summer Program are pushing AI tools to be more flexible, efficient, and grounded in truth.

November 6, 2025