When politics is local in the Middle East
Study suggests sectarian identity in the region is tied to domestic matters, not a larger, transnational religious split.
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Making data visualization more accessible for blind and low-vision individuals
Researchers have created prototypes that enable screen-reader users to quickly and easily navigate through multiple levels of information in an online chart.
Commencement address by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-general of the World Trade Organization describes the need for combining science, social science, and policy to meet the challenges of our time.
On the road to cleaner, greener, and faster driving
Researchers use artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights.
Springing people from the poverty trap
Field experiment in Bangladesh shows the poor simply lack opportunities to gain wealth — but a one-time boost can make a major difference.
Approaching human cognition from many angles
Senior Keith Murray combines his interests in neuroscience, computation, and philosophy to better understand human behavior.
Secret superheroes of EECS
Lecturers ensure the technology, curriculum, and instructional delivery of MIT’s classroom education keep up with the dizzying pace of its research.
Looking forward to forecast the risks of a changing climate
To better inform local policy in the face of changing weather extremes, MIT researchers seek to advance the modeling of long-term weather risks.
Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help.
Manipulating the future
A new robotic manipulation course provides a broad survey of state-of-the-art robotics, equipping students to identify and solve the field’s biggest problems.
MIT welcomes two from the Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship for 2022
The fellowship supports research contributing to the field of planetary science and astronomy.
Robots dress humans without the full picture
MIT researchers design a robot that has a trick or two up its sleeve.
Improving predictions of sea level rise for the next century
Brent Minchew leads two proposals to better understand glacial physics and predict sea-level rise as part of MIT's Climate Grand Challenges competition.
Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on new pathways to decarbonizing industry
Faculty leaders detail promising technologies, materials, and methods that could help unlock a low-carbon future in sectors where emissions are hardest to cut.
A tool for predicting the future
Researchers design a user-friendly interface that helps nonexperts make forecasts using data collected over time.