Here are some highlights from conversations we hosted about augmented reality, gene editing, thermal batteries, and the ...

Publicly available data helps monitor ship traffic to avoid disruption of undersea internet cables, identify whale strikes, ...

Here are some highlights from conversations we hosted about augmented reality, gene editing, thermal batteries, and the impact of AI on the climate.

From cataloguing the year’s biggest breakthroughs in emerging technology to exploring the far future, 2024 kept us busy.

If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation.

As machine learning and generative AI reshape the world, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is integrating these and other ...

Some technology companies have found manipulative ways to inspire irrational levels of devotion. Should we be worried?

Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had ...

The annual three-day Mystery Hunt returns to campus January 17. Here’s how last year’s puzzle marathon played out.

The awards honor work on gene regulation and the relationship between political systems and economic growth. Two MIT ...

That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a ...