Maria Zuber awarded the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize in Planetary Sciences
Honor recognizes scientists whose achievements have most advanced our understanding of planetary systems.
CSAIL hosts first-ever TEDxMIT
Speakers — all women — discuss everything from gravitational waves to robot nurses.
Professor Timothy Jamison named to new associate provost position
Newly created role will foster diversity, inclusion, equity, and positive climate; search for new ICEO will expand.
Ultra-Quantum Matter research gets $8 million boost
MIT’s Senthil Todadri and Xiao-Gang Wen will study highly entangled quantum matter in a collaboration supported by the Simons Foundation.
J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
Nine principal investigators from MIT will receive grants totaling over $1 million for solutions-oriented research into global food and water challenges.
Teaching language models grammar really does make them smarter
Researchers submit deep learning models to a set of psychology tests to see which ones grasp key linguistic rules.
Biotech startup uses nanoparticles to induce immune tolerance
Selecta Bioscience’s ImmTOR platform could improve gene therapies and prevent some drug side effects.
Humanizing speech in the deaf-blind community
Sophomore Noopur Ranganathan's work empowers those with visual and auditory impairments to take communication into their own hands.
Developing artificial intelligence tools for all
MIT Quest for Intelligence-sponsored undergraduate research projects demystify AI.
For one graduate student, MIT's nuclear reactor is like a "second home"
On the cusp of graduation, health sciences and technology doctoral candidate Agata Wiśniowska '11 sustains her decade-plus connection to the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab.
Finding value in nature and ensuring green growth
For the 17th annual Kendall Lecture, Gretchen Daily analyzes species and ecosystem services and leverages natural capital to build a green financial system.
Scientists discover the source of new CFC emissions
Despite global phase-out, the ozone-depleting chemical is still in production in eastern China.
Mathematical technique quickly tunes next-generation lenses
“Metasurfaces” that manipulate light at tiny scales could find uses in cellphone lenses, smart-car sensors, and optical fibers.
MIT team places second in 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge
Multilevel Mars greenhouse could provide food to sustain astronauts for several years.
Merging machine learning and the life sciences
Through computing, senior and Marshall Scholar Anna Sappington seeks answers to biological questions.