Study: Mobile-money services lift Kenyans out of poverty
Greater access to services raises daily spending, especially among female-headed households.
President Reif calls for renewed national commitment to support basic science
“Invisible infrastructure” of nation’s scientific enterprise is eroding, MIT president warns in Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Evaluating voter experience
Wait times at polls in 2016 election improved in several key states, new survey results show.
Experts gather at MIT to urge more innovation in health care delivery
Two-day conference explores opportunities for research, innovation, and evidence-informed policymaking to address a range of national health care challenges.
Agitating the aluminum pot
MIT researchers demonstrate that strong churning during hot liquid state can produce stronger, more uniformly structured large aluminum casts.
![“…[I]f humans behave similarly to mice in response to this treatment, I would say the potential is just enormous, because it’s so noninvasive, and it’s so accessible,” says Li-Huei Tsai, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience, when describing a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201612/MIT-li-huei-tsai.jpg?itok=eVlLbwfP)
Unique visual stimulation may be new treatment for Alzheimer’s
Noninvasive technique reduces beta amyloid plaques in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
Learning words from pictures
System correlates recorded speech with images, could lead to fully automated speech recognition.
Design your own custom drone
CSAIL system lets users design and fabricate drones with a wide range of shapes and structures.
Lincoln Laboratory is honored with the Herschel Award
Infrared digital-pixel focal plane arrays are deemed a groundbreaking technology.
A radiation-free approach to imaging molecules in the brain
New probe induces blood flow changes that can be seen by MRI.
Computer learns to recognize sounds by watching video
Machine-learning system doesn’t require costly hand-annotated data.
How the brain recognizes faces
Machine-learning system spontaneously reproduces aspects of human neurology.
Bold research visions recognized and rewarded
Four proposals from six MIT faculty members to receive Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
Lincoln Laboratory's supercomputing system ranked most powerful in New England
New Dell EMC petaflop-scale supercomputer has 6 times more processing power and 20 times more bandwidth than its predecessor.