Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
MIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts.
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High-performance computing, with much less code
The Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers.
2025 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
MIT professors Paloma Duong, Frank Schilbach, and Justin Steil are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025
The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas.
Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award
Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.
Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences
Worldwide honors for 2025 span disciplines across three schools.
Rebuilding Ukraine
A collaboration between MIT professors of urban studies and planning and the Association of Ukrainian Cities aims to empower Ukraine’s municipal leaders to drive recovery after the war.
MIT engineers prepare to send three payloads to the moon
Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
An “All-American” vision of service to others
Former NFL linebacker Spencer Paysinger keynotes the 51st annual MLK Celebration, with a message focused on building community.
Five from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars
Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli; Christina Kim ’24; Abigail Schipper ’24; Sera Tolgay MCP ’18, SM ’18; and Rachel Zhang ’21 will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University in the U.K.
MIT faculty, alumni named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
Reducing carbon emissions from residential heating: A pathway forward
A new MIT study identifies steps that can lower not only emissions, but also costs, across the combined electric power and natural gas industries that now supply heating fuels.
Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language.
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.
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.