- by Zach Winn | MIT NewsHertha Metals, founded by Laureen Meroueh SM ’18, PhD ’20, uses natural gas and electricity to produce steel and high-purity iron for magnets.
- by Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)Project AI Evidence will connect governments, tech companies, and nonprofits with world-class economists at MIT and across J-PAL's global network to evaluate and improve AI solutions.
- by Office of the ProvostDesign leader brings extensive interdisciplinary track record to key role supporting faculty across the Institute.
- by Zach Winn | MIT NewsAssociate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has spent his career applying AI to improve scientific discovery. Now he believes we are at an inflection point.
- by Daniel J. Darling | Department of Biological EngineeringDriven by overuse and misuse of antibiotics, drug-resistant infections are on the rise, while development of new antibacterial tools has slowed.
- by David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and MemoryOpening a new window on the brainstem, a new tool reliably and finely resolves distinct nerve bundles in live diffusion MRI scans, revealing signs of injury or disease.
- by Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical EngineeringMagMix, an onboard mixing device, enables scalable manufacturing of 3D-printed tissues.
- by Abby Abazorius | MIT NewsMIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also have thoughts on whether five-rotation jumps are humanly possible.
- by Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social SciencesTop worldwide honors span disciplines across three MIT schools for the second year in a row.
- by Jennifer Chu | MIT NewsThe flexible material could enable on-demand heat dissipation for electronics, fabrics, and buildings.
- by Chad Galts | MIT News correspondentFor several decades beginning in the 1950s, the Killian Report set the frontiers of military technology, intelligence gathering, national security policy, and global affairs.
- by Adam Zewe | MIT NewsRemoving just a tiny fraction of the crowdsourced data that informs online ranking platforms can significantly change the results.
- MIT faculty join The Curiosity Desk to discuss football, math, Olympic figure skating, AI and the quest to cure ovarian cancer.
- by Peter Dizikes | MIT NewsThe first complete charting of foot traffic in any US city can be used for infrastructure decisions and safety improvements.
- by Jennifer Chu | MIT NewsA new study suggests aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.
- by Melanie Miller Kaufman | Department of Chemical EngineeringFormer Chemical Engineering Practice School director recognized by the National Academy of Engineering for decades of leadership advancing immersive, industry-centered learning at MIT.
- by Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain ResearchResearchers find a component of the brain’s dedicated language network in the cerebellum, a region better known for coordinating movement.
- by Anne Trafton | MIT NewsBased on a virus-like particle built with a DNA scaffold, the approach could generate broadly neutralizing antibody responses against HIV or influenza.
- by Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and PlanningProfessor of the practice Carlo Ratti designed this year’s Olympic torch with the ethos and principles he brings to his work at MIT.
- by Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of ComputingHe joins Nikos Trichakis in guiding the cross-cutting initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.