This robot helps you lift objects — by looking at your biceps CSAIL system can mirror a user's motions and follow nonverbal commands by monitoring arm muscles. May 22, 2019 Read full story →
3 Questions: The fact finders Lydia Snover and her Institutional Research team gather data to help the Institute to study itself. May 22, 2019 Read full story →
Merging machine learning and the life sciences Through computing, senior and Marshall Scholar Anna Sappington seeks answers to biological questions. May 18, 2019 Read full story →
Solution for remotely monitoring oil wells wins MIT $100K MIT startup Acoustic Wells earned the grand prize at the annual entrepreneurship competition. May 17, 2019 Read full story →
Public opinion study in Europe shows drop in anti-immigration sentiment, among other changes Surveys spanning recent decades also reveal geographic differences and gender gap in economic views. May 16, 2019 Read full story →
MIT and KTH will collaborate on urban planning and development in Stockholm Project will use new ways of collecting and analyzing data to make Stockholm more livable and sustainable. May 16, 2019 Read full story →
Recreating ancient minerals New research demonstrates how to make the rock dolomite, preserving fine microbial textures in marine environments and solving the dolomite problem. May 10, 2019 Read full story →
Building a community for statistics and data science at MIT and beyond Third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science conference gathers a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners. May 10, 2019 Read full story →
Ambient plant illumination could light the way for greener buildings Collaboration between MIT architect and chemical engineer could be at the center of new sustainable infrastructure for buildings. May 9, 2019 Read full story →
Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new stars. May 8, 2019 Read full story →
Smarter training of neural networks MIT CSAIL project shows the neural nets we typically train contain smaller “subnetworks” that can learn just as well, and often faster. May 6, 2019 Read full story →
Breakthrough in boiling High-fidelity simulations by MIT nuclear researchers point the way to optimizing heat transfer in current and next-generation reactors. April 22, 2019 Read full story →
Robots that can sort recycling CSAIL’s "RoCycle" system uses in-hand sensors to detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic. April 16, 2019 Read full story →
Working together as a “virtual telescope,” observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole Images reveal supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy. April 10, 2019 Read full story →
Driving toward success Through MIT Professional Education’s Advanced Study Program, Ernie Ho found the tools — and the community — he needed to realize his vision and launch his career. April 5, 2019 Read full story →