Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory
A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.
MIT-led team receives funding to develop a wearable monitor for early disease detection
Awarded up to $38 million from ARPA-H, the team aims to create a low-power, noninvasive sensor patch that measures heart failure and sepsis biomarkers in real-time.
Dream, build, destroy, repeat
Members of the student-run MIT Combat Robotics Club learn through destruction.
3 Questions: Building more resilient minerals supply chains
Elsa Olivetti, co-director of the MIT Minerals Stewardship Consortium, discusses how research and collaborations can strengthen mineral supply chains.
Featured video: Changing the conversation about endometriosis
Documentary shines a powerful light on a painful disease that affects 265 million women, highlights efforts at MIT’s Center for Gynepathology Research to study the disease and find treatments.
Lemelson-MIT brings invention education to classrooms from kindergarten to college
A new initiative in California, Tennessee, and New England puts learning by doing at the center of students’ STEM pathways, in step with MIT for America’s focus on helping students design, make, and innovate.
Powering up for a pivotal moment
From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
A flexible new route to designer materials built from nanoparticles
Pliable connector molecules could be key to creating nanoparticle-based materials for photonics, chemical catalysis, medicine, and more.
Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery
The MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in AI-driven drug discovery.
MIT engineers design a safer, more efficient vaccination system for farmed fish
Water-resistant microneedles made from food-grade silk could deliver vaccines to help prevent the spread of disease in aquaculture.
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines
The particles carry a customized dose of cancer antigens that can provoke a strong immune response against tumors.
New system gives users more control over their online experience
The Social.Wiki framework enables anyone to easily edit social websites within the system, while allowing them to choose the content they see.
Seven MIT affiliates elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2026
Professor Michael Yaffe and six MIT alumni are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
A soft robot could help doctors diagnose and treat disorders of the small intestine
MIT engineers designed a robotic enteroscope that can inch through the hard-to-reach small intestine, making biopsies and drug delivery easier.