Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time
A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
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Building for Ukraine: A hackathon with a mission
No venture capital, no competition — just real-world problems in urgent need of solutions.
MIT students advance solutions for water and food with the help of J-WAFS
J-WAFS marks 10 years of supporting student engagement through grants, fellowships, events, mentorship, and funding for clubs.
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.
The spark of innovation and the commercialization journey
Entrepreneur and educator Vanessa Chan PhD ’00 explores how to bridge the gap between invention and market.
Enabling energy innovation at scale
As part of MITEI’s speaker series, The Engine CEO Emily Knight explained how to take “tough tech” innovation from idea to impact.
New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports
The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.
MIT Solve announces 2025 Global Challenges
Leading social impact platform seeks tech innovators tackling global challenges in climate, health, learning, economic prosperity, and more.
A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot capable of navigating under collapsed structures.
Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges
This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems.
Collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to develop and scale sustainable energy systems
The MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance includes research, education, and career opportunities across the Institute.
For this computer scientist, MIT Open Learning was the start of a life-changing journey
Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia.
Preparing for a career at the forefront of the aerospace industry
In a new class, students design, build, and test an electric turbopump for a rocket engine, facing challenges they will experience as practicing engineers.
Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94
On the physics faculty for nearly 40 years and a member of the Center for Theoretical Physics, he focused on the interactions of hadrons and developed an R-matrix formulation of scattering theory.
Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors
MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.