Low-cost device can measure air pollution anywhere
Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply.
Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply.
A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity.
Carlo Ratti investigates how digital technologies transform our urban spaces and how they can be harnessed to design sustainable cities for the future.
At MIT, social networks with “weak ties,” which help foster new ideas, declined during the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers report.
Study suggests how much competition in the urban ride market can grow before gridlock sets in.
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
In their new book, “Urban Play,” MIT researchers advance the idea of using technology to make urban life creative and unpredictable.
Globally, people follow a “visitation law” — an inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits.
Five years in the making, MIT’s autonomous floating vessels get a size upgrade and learn a new way to communicate aboard the waters.
Studying usage in Singapore, MIT and SMART researchers find scooter rentals allow for increased sharing frequency and fewer vehicles needed.
Genetic, geographic, and demographic data from more than 30,000 Americans reveal more genetic diversity within ancestry groups than previously thought.
Study shows how commuting and other forms of everyday travel help spread mosquito-borne disease in urban settings.
New capabilities allow “roboats” to change configurations to form pop-up bridges, stages, and other structures.