Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs
New results show with high statistical confidence that ozone recovery is going strong.
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A personalized heart implant wins MIT Sloan health care prize
Spheric Bio’s implants are designed to grow in a channel of the heart to better fit the patient’s anatomy and prevent strokes.
Five years, five triumphs in Putnam Math Competition
Undergrads sweep Putnam Fellows for fifth year in a row and continue Elizabeth Lowell Putnam winning streak.
AI system predicts protein fragments that can bind to or inhibit a target
FragFold, developed by MIT Biology researchers, is a computational method with potential for impact on biological research and therapeutic applications.
MIT faculty, alumni named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
Cynthia Barnhart to step down as provost
An alumna and longtime faculty member, Barnhart helped lead the Institute for the last decade, serving as both chancellor and provost.
MIT spinout maps the body’s metabolites to uncover the hidden drivers of disease
ReviveMed uses AI to gather large-scale data on metabolites — molecules like lipids, cholesterol, and sugar — to match patients with therapeutics.
Like human brains, large language models reason about diverse data in a general way
A new study shows LLMs represent different data types based on their underlying meaning and reason about data in their dominant language.
MIT class takes students on a grand tour of the interdisciplinary world of biotech
Exploring and applying concepts from different disciplines provides broad knowledge and hands-on practice for real-world application.
Viewing the universe through ripples in space
Physicist Salvatore Vitale is looking for new sources of gravitational waves, to reach beyond what we can learn about the universe through light alone.
Bridging philosophy and AI to explore computing ethics
In a new MIT course co-taught by EECS and philosophy professors, students tackle moral dilemmas of the digital age.
Puzzling out climate change
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
Creating a common language
New faculty member Kaiming He discusses AI’s role in lowering barriers between scientific fields and fostering collaboration across scientific disciplines.
3 Questions: What the laws of physics tell us about CO2 removal
In a report on the feasibility of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, physicists say these technologies are “not a magic bullet, but also not a no-go.”