Taming fusion with machine learning
Postdoc Cristina Rea's detour into banking provides a new route back to plasma research.
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Bringing humanistic education in technical subjects to the world
Students and staff combine workshopping and OpenCourseWare to demonstrate human-centered pedagogies in the context of modern topics and technologies.
Researchers decode molecule that gives living tissues their flexibility
Study reveals atomic structure of tropoelastin, showing what goes wrong in some diseases.
MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity
Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken.
3Q: Winning together in negotiation
Bruno Verdini, executive director of the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program, discusses his award-winning research on negotiating for mutual gains.
Contest is crowdsourcing strategies to reduce pollution from small businesses
Toronto's Center for Social Innovation seeks solutions with a contest on MIT's Climate CoLab platform, providing up to $432,000 to fund pilot projects.
Study: Climate action can limit Asia’s growing water shortages
Following the Paris accord could reduce risk of severe water-access problems, researchers find.
MIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
Platform may enable continuous, low-cost, reliable devices that detect chemicals in the environment.
Reliable energy for all
Graduate student Prosper Nyovanie wants to power off-grid communities worldwide with scalable solar electric systems.
MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science opens enrollment
Program offers path to an accelerated master’s degree at seven universities.
A better device for measuring electromagnetic radiation
New bolometer is faster, simpler, and covers more wavelengths.
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the Class of 2018
Reif urges graduates to “find your calling. Solve the unsolvable. Invent the future. Take the high road.”
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tells MIT grads “it’s about people”
Commencement speaker says the greatest opportunities are for humans, not technology.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Commencement address
Facebook COO tells MIT grads: "It’s not enough to be technologists — we have to make sure that technology serves people."