news.mit.eduadded August 2026
MIT Newsby Sophia Steckler | Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab1d ago
Until recently, when a Massachusetts shellfish warden needed to know how much rain had fallen overnight before deciding whether to close a shellfishing area, the process might look something like...
MIT Newsby Peter Dizikes | MIT News9d ago
Brian, a middle-aged financial consultant, spends his day sitting in front of three screens. Two of them involve his job.
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News9d ago
AI tools are increasingly replacing human judgements in some settings. For instance, resume screening algorithms are often used in hiring, where they may improve efficiency and consistency in...
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News9d ago
Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, even a single layer of muscle cells can power through water if designed right.
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News10d ago
RNA vaccines, which have been proven effective against Covid-19, are now being developed for many other diseases, including cancer.
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News13d ago
RNA vaccines and other nucleic acid therapeutics are typically packaged within fatty molecules known as lipid nanoparticles (LNPs).
MIT Newsby Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research14d ago
When people reach out during a mental health crisis, a top priority for counselors is identifying those with a high risk of suicide.
MIT Newsby Zach Winn | MIT News14d ago
One of the main reasons that ovarian cancer is among the deadliest forms of cancer is timing: When doctors catch it early, the five-year survival rate can be north of 90 percent.
MIT Newsby Nina Tamburello | Koch Institute17d ago
Most mornings this summer, Marina Milea arrived at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research building ready to juggle several experiments at once.
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News21d ago
Every new generation of phone display, television screen, and solar panel is a result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of...
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News22d ago
Researchers created a new technique that accurately and rapidly matches X-rays captured during surgery with a patient’s preoperative 3D medical scan.
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News29d ago
During the day, waste products such as lactic acid and worn-out proteins build up in the brain. When we sleep at night, waves of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) help to wash away this waste, keeping the...
MIT Newsby Peter Dizikes | MIT News8 Sept 2026
How will global access to food, water, and energy evolve in coming decades? A new study co-authored by MIT researchers suggests the answers could be very different depending on region, resource...
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News3 Sept 2026
The field of silicon photonics, which uses light rather than electricity to transmit and process data on semiconductor chips, has enabled optical systems to evolve from bulky setups to compact and...
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News2 Sept 2026
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations.
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News1 Sept 2026
A region of the brain called the striatum is critical for many cognitive and motor functions, including decision-making, control of movement, habit formation, and processing of reward.
MIT Newsby Liam McDonnell | Office of Innovation and Strategy31 Aug 2026
The MIT Quantum Initiative (QMIT) has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate interdisciplinary quantum research and develop the next generation of scientific leaders working...
MIT Newsby Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab31 Aug 2026
Sai Ravela, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), works with a team of researchers, local partners, and community collaborators to...
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News31 Aug 2026
When exploring solar system bodies for signs of past or present life, scientists have mainly focused on planets that have (or had) a liquid surface similar to Earth’s.
MIT Newsby Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL27 Aug 2026
Modern processors are fast, in part, because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead.
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