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Class pairs students with military officers to build mission-critical solutions

MIT course 15.362/6.9160 (Engineering Innovation: Global Security Systems) gives students an inside look at military problems and empowers them to build prototypes.

May 15, 2025

Dimitris Bertsimas receives the 2025-2026 Killian Award

The professor of operations research is honored for his intellectual achievements and educational leadership.

May 14, 2025

Three x-ray images with the words, “no; not; doesn’t.”

Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words

Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.

May 14, 2025

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Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named

MIT MAD has established new professorships and appointed three MIT faculty to advance design education across disciplines.

May 8, 2025

Time lapse shows ping pong paddle hitting ball.

Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision

In addition to training future players, the technology could expand the capabilities of other humanoid robots, such as for search and rescue.

May 8, 2025

Using AI to explore the 3D structure of the genome

Two meters of DNA is crammed into the nucleus of every human cell. Bin Zhang wants to know how gene expression works in this minuscule space.

May 7, 2025

Two simple outline maps of India, each covered with dots. At left, plants are marked with green dots of different shades and labeled "low-efficiency coal plants." At right they are marked with orange dots of different shades and labeled "high-efficiency coal plants."

How can India decarbonize its coal-dependent electric power system?

A detailed MIT analysis identifies some promising options but also raises unexpected concerns.

May 6, 2025

Startup helps farmers grow plant-based feed and fertilizer using wastewater

Founded by former MIT Tata Center translational research director Jason Prapas, Fyto has built an automated system for harvesting the aquatic plant Lemna on dairy farms.

May 6, 2025

Conceptual illustration of autonomous vehicles communicating on a smart highway.

New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning

“IntersectionZoo,” a benchmarking tool, uses a real-world traffic problem to test progress in deep reinforcement learning algorithms.

May 5, 2025

Digital college shows a lens with stylized atoms, yellow on the left and red on the right

MIT physicists snap the first images of “free-range” atoms

The results will help scientists visualize never-before-seen quantum phenomena in real space.

May 5, 2025

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Studying work, life, and economics

Economics doctoral student Tishara Garg takes a novel approach to answering ambitious questions about big-push industrial policy and development.

April 30, 2025

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The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4

New phase will support continued exploration of ideas and solutions in fields ranging from AI to nanotech to climate — with emphasis on educational exchanges and entrepreneurship.

April 30, 2025

Mingmar Sherpa wears a lab coat and sits at a computer

Always looking to home

Mingmar Sherpa, a researcher in the Martin Lab in the Department of Biology, has remained connected to his home in Nepal at every step of his career.

April 29, 2025

A young man with short black hair wearing a dark cable-knit sweater, black collared shirt, and corduroy jacket stands in front of a large abstract textile artwork featuring bold shapes in blue, white, and purple.

Merging design and computer science in creative ways

MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality.

April 28, 2025

Gene circuits enable more precise control of gene therapy

The circuits could help researchers develop new treatments for fragile X syndrome and other diseases caused by mutations of a single gene.