- Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leavesWith the new system, farmers could significantly cut their use of pesticides and fertilizers, saving money and reducing runoff.
- Decoding a medieval mystery manuscriptUsing tech tools and a human touch, Arthur Bahr sheds light on the original volume containing “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “Pearl.”
- Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leavesWith the new system, farmers could significantly cut their use of pesticides and fertilizers, saving money and reducing runoff.
- Decoding a medieval mystery manuscriptUsing tech tools and a human touch, Arthur Bahr sheds light on the original volume containing “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “Pearl.”
- Scene at MIT: Artfinity brings artistic celebration to campusEvents connected the MIT community through exhibitions, performances, interactive installations, and more.
- Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successesInvestment in analytics may also benefit college teams and fields beyond sports, a new study shows.
- Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowdsThe findings could help planners design safer, more efficient pedestrian thoroughfares.
- Biogen to consolidate operations in MIT’s first Kendall Common buildingNew global headquarters will further solidify the company’s pioneering role in the Kendall Square innovation ecosystem.
- MIT scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to lightThe research may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for wound healing or drug delivery.
- Engineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugsWith tinier needles and fewer injections, the approach may enable new options for long-term delivery of contraceptives or treatments for diseases such as HIV.
- Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processorsMIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.
- AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approachesResearchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone.
- Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins, pioneer in nuclear physics, dies at 98An MIT faculty member for 40 years, Grodzins performed groundbreaking studies of the weak interaction, led in detection technology, and co-founded the Union of Concerned Scientists.
- Drawing inspiration from ancient chemical reactionsBy studying cellular enzymes that perform difficult reactions, MIT chemist Dan Suess hopes to find new solutions to global energy challenges.
- Security scheme could protect sensitive data during cloud computationMIT researchers crafted a new approach that could allow anyone to run operations on encrypted data without decrypting it first.
- David Schmittlein, influential dean who brought MIT Sloan into its own, dies at 69In his 17 years as dean, Schmittlein led the transformation of MIT Sloan into a management school uniquely positioned for the future and “the best version of its distinctive self.”
- “An AI future that honors dignity for everyone”As artificial intelligence develops, we must ask vital questions about ourselves and our society, Ben Vinson III contends in the 2025 Compton Lecture.
- To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or MandarinA new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.
- New platform lets anyone rapidly prototype large, sturdy interactive structuresThe system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
- Women’s indoor track and field wins first NCAA Division III National ChampionshipWith 49 points, MIT bests 61 other teams; senior Alexis Boykin wins shot put and weight throw national titles.
- A dive into the “almost magical” potential of photonic crystalsIn MIT’s 2025 Killian Lecture, physicist John Joannopoulos recounts highlights from a career at the vanguard of photonics research and innovation.
- Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robotsMIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts.
