Media Lab

Thunkable co-founders (l-r) WeiHua Li ’14 SM ’16 and Arun Saigal ’13 SM ’13 began working on the MIT App Inventor project together in 2011.

Democratizing app development

Thunkable gives noncoders the ability to create professional-grade mobile apps.

January 16, 2019

Scratch 3.0 features new extensions, tablet and touchscreen capabilities, and improved tools for collaboration.

Introducing Scratch 3.0

The new version of the popular free coding platform builds on a robust community of kid coders.

January 8, 2019

Shriya Srinivasan is a PhD student in medical engineering and medical physics at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Leg nerves activated by light offer new path to restoring mobility

New optogenetic technique could help restore limb movement, treat muscle tremor.

December 26, 2018

Researchers in MIT's Collective Learning Group used data on the work history of an entire country to identify the knowledge flows that are more consequential for entrepreneurial activities.

How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.

December 20, 2018

MIT engineers have devised a way to create 3-D nanoscale objects by patterning a larger structure with a laser and then shrinking it. This image shows a complex structure prior to shrinking.

Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale

It’s not quite the Ant-Man suit, but the system produces 3-D structures one thousandth the size of the originals.

December 13, 2018

Thirty-one MIT community members were named to this year’s list, including 25 alumni.

More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

Forbes calls its 2019 30 Under 30 honorees “a collection of bold risk-takers who are putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade.”

December 7, 2018

Left to right: BethAnne McLaughlin, Tarana Burke, and Sherry Marts have won the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award.

Tarana Burke, BethAnn McLaughlin, and Sherry Marts win 2018 Media Lab Disobedience Award

Three leaders of the #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM movements are recognized.

November 28, 2018

“At MIT, we know that solving challenging problems requires the combined knowledge and insight from many fields. The world’s complex issues are not only scientific and technological problems; they are as much human and ethical problems,” says Melissa Nobles, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

Times Higher Education ranks MIT No.1 in business and economics, No.2 in arts and humanities

Worldwide honors for 2019 span three MIT schools.

November 15, 2018

Singer Omar Ebrahim as Arnold Schoenberg as Humphrey Bogart, from "Schoenberg in Hollywood"

“Schoenberg in Hollywood,” the opera

New work by Tod Machover of the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group examines ideas of heritage, politics, and artistic integrity.

November 14, 2018

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination.

Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.

November 14, 2018

Artist Ekene Ijeoma sits with “Pan-African AIDS,” a sculpture representing the hyper-visibility of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and the hidden one in Black America.

Ekene Ijeoma joins MIT Media Lab

The new media arts and sciences faculty member merges social justice with design, architecture, music, performance, and technology.

November 7, 2018

people smiling and talking in front of scientific posters

Collaborating for MIT’s Future poster session offers community insights and inspiration

For the fifth year, the poster session brought together colleagues from across MIT to learn about new projects and partnerships.

November 2, 2018

Open Access Week is a global event now entering its 10th year.

Celebrating Open Access Week

Knowledge Futures Group and the MIT Press team up to highlight ways to meet increasing demands for open access content.

October 25, 2018

The researchers (left to right), Joseph Jacobson, a professor of media arts and sciences and head of the Molecular Machines research group, and graduate students in the Media Lab, Pranam Chatterjee and Noah Jakimo.

New CRISPR tool opens up more of the genome for editing

Enzyme can target almost half of the genome’s “ZIP codes” and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations.

October 24, 2018

Ethical questions involving autonomous vehicles are the focus of a new global survey conducted by MIT researchers.

How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?

Massive global survey reveals ethics preferences and regional differences.