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April 15, 2025
Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
On March 6, the words and voices of people from around the world speaking in dozens of languages, and stored on a 2-inch silicon wafer, landed on the moon.
April 10, 2025 MIT students advance solutions for water and food with the help of J-WAFSThe Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) marks 10 years of promoting student engagement across the Institute to help solve the world’s most pressing water and food system challenges.
April 8, 2025 Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shippingResearchers have discovered that burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers has a comparable environmental impact, overall, to burning low-sulfur fuels for bulk maritime shipping.
April 8, 2025 MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2025-26U.S. News and Word Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, including placing mechanical engineering and five other areas first among individual disciplines.
April 3, 2025 Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessibleUndergraduate students from Tecnológico de Monterrey have been learning how to build low-cost fiber-extrusion devices alongside their MIT peers in an immersive practicum at MIT featuring desktop fiber-extrusion devices.
