Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.
April 19, 2018New fellowship program honoring trailblazing Nobel laureate awards four MIT postdocs focused on drug discovery and development.
April 17, 2018Year-long program will give early-stage entrepreneurs a leg up in the functional fabrics industry.
April 13, 2018Technology could help prevent life-threatening infections in patients receiving chemotherapy.
April 2, 2018Design principles could point to better electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries.
March 25, 2018Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons.
February 15, 2018Prize recognizes contributions to biomedical research made by immigrant scientists.
February 1, 2018Design is major stepping stone toward portable artificial-intelligence devices.
January 22, 2018Saman Amarasinghe and Joel Voldman are named associate department heads; Nancy Lynch is associate department head for strategic directions, a new post.
January 12, 2018Associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science was part of a group that earned acclaim for work on a new video compression standard.
November 30, 2017New technique manipulates atoms into antiferromagnetic state.
November 29, 2017Method of laser cooling may speed up investigations into magnetism and superconductivity.
November 23, 2017Forbes calls this year's 30 Under 30 lists an "encyclopedia of creative disruption."
November 21, 2017Attorney, author, and civil-rights advocate moderates The Gender/Race Imperative, a series of talks at MIT about equality in education.
November 13, 2017Advance may open new pathways for cancer immunotherapy.
October 19, 2017Using smartphone cameras, system for seeing around corners could help with self-driving cars and search-and-rescue.
October 9, 2017Study explains conflicting results from other experiments, may lead to batteries with more energy per pound.
August 15, 2017New design boosts the power output of the best-performing chip-scale terahertz laser by 80 percent.
August 8, 2017Method for modeling neural networks’ power consumption could help make the systems portable.
July 18, 2017An MIT student in engineering and theater arts melds her dual passions to bring physics to the stage.
June 20, 2017