Empowering innovation Panel highlighting female innovators from a range of fields aims to encourage student entrepreneurs. January 22, 2016 Read full story →
MIT Sloan launches three new undergraduate majors and minors Course 15 will offer undergraduates three new majors — management, business analytics, and finance — starting this fall. January 21, 2016 Read full story →
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting. January 21, 2016 Read full story →
Celebrating the "Pleasures of Poetry" at MIT Now in its 20th season, a popular poetry series provides the MIT community with new voices and verbal harmonies — and a window into MIT's varied poetry offerings. January 19, 2016 Read full story →
Space: The here-and-now frontier MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics launches a new generation of innovators. January 19, 2016 Read full story →
Drones dodge obstacles Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to do donuts, figure-eights in object-filled environments. January 19, 2016 Read full story →
Larissa Senatus learns about the world by doing Mechanical engineering major hopes to bring hands-on learning opportunities home to Haiti. January 13, 2016 Read full story →
MIT releases institutional greenhouse gas inventory Data set a baseline for campus climate action. January 13, 2016 Read full story →
Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move “3-D physics engine” from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory simulates the human brain to infer physical properties. January 4, 2016 Read full story →
A healthy breakdown Researchers discover how some organisms process oxalate, a molecule that can harm humans. December 28, 2015 Read full story →
Michael Artin and Shirley Jackson win nation’s highest honor in science and technology Mathematician and MIT Corporation life member named National Medal of Science recipients. December 23, 2015 Read full story →
Machines that learn like people Algorithms could learn to recognize objects from a few examples, not millions; may better model human cognition. December 23, 2015 Read full story →
Pushing engineering boundaries to spur infrastructure innovation MIT hosts Infrastructure Innovation in a Changing Environment Conference. December 22, 2015 Read full story →
3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on making the future makers MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them. December 22, 2015 Read full story →
MIT’s Buehler and Reis elected to Society of Engineering Science Board of Directors December 21, 2015 Read full story →