• Jan. 17, 2023
    True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon — the backbone of modern...
  • Jan. 11, 2023
    The MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company, fuels the development and application of artificial intelligence capabilities to...
  • Jan. 10, 2023
    As a river cuts through a landscape, it can operate like a conveyer belt, moving truckloads of sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the...
  • Jan. 2, 2023
    U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu serves as the Department of Defense’s chief technology officer. In a recent talk at MIT, she spoke about the DoD’s initiatives...
  • Dec. 21, 2022
    On Thursday, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Evelyn Wang, the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as director of the Department...
  • Dec. 19, 2022
    Orchard-sprayer.jpg A farmer driving a tractor spraying pesticide and insecticide on a lemon plantation in Spain. Credit: Agzen Kripa Varanasi had just started his...
  • Dec. 17, 2022
    When Peter Williams was taking 2.002 (Mechanics and Materials II) this past semester, he won a trophy whose height is approximately equal to the width of three human hairs. Rather than feeling short-...
  • Dec. 14, 2022
    After forty-seven years in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leslie Regan retired, leaving a legacy of care and compassion for generations of graduate alumni. Leslie Collage.jpg...
  • Dec. 13, 2022
    On Monday evening, inside a rainbow-lit Kresge Auditorium, a capacity crowd whooped and hollered and shook their pom-poms along to one of the most anticipated shows of the year: the final student...
  • Dec. 13, 2022
    Genetic engineering and personalized cell therapies could transform healthcare. In recent years, stem cells and gene-editing tools like CRISPR have been making headlines for the possibilities they...
  • Dec. 13, 2022
    Four recent MIT alumni — Udochukwu Eze ’22, William Rodriguez ’18, Yotaro Sueoka ’20, and Sreya Vangara ’22 — and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology doctoral student Jacob White have been...
  • Dec. 11, 2022
    For many of us, the act of breathing comes naturally. Behind the scenes, our diaphragm — the dome-shaped muscle that lies just beneath the ribcage — works like a slow and steady trampoline, pushing...
  • Dec. 7, 2022
    Since 1901, MIT has offered a graduate program unlike any other at the Institute. The Naval Construction and Engineering program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering educates active duty...
  • Dec. 1, 2022
    Despite the fact that half of the world’s population will experience menopause, it is often considered a taboo topic. As a result, there are very few evidence-based methods or products that alleviate...
  • Dec. 1, 2022
    Healthcare has always been ripe for innovation. Whether it’s increasing safety in operating rooms, developing systems to reduce patient wait times, or improving drug delivery, there are endless...
  • Dec. 1, 2022
    On a Monday evening early each December, Kresge Auditorium transforms into something resembling a pep rally. The sold-out crowd cheers loudly, waving colorful pom poms in the air as confetti rains...
  • Nov. 30, 2022
    Bernardo Aceituno has always been fascinated by machine learning. As an undergraduate student in his hometown of Caracas, Venezuela, he spent most of his free time working on projects that involved...
  • Nov. 29, 2022
    Manufacturing had a big summer. The CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law in August, represents a massive investment in US domestic manufacturing. The Act aims to drastically expand the US...
  • Nov. 17, 2022
    Many students in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program return to the workplace primed to tackle complex operational problems. But sometimes their research sparks deep scholarly interest,...
  • Nov. 17, 2022
    Two-dimensional materials, which consist of just a single layer of atoms, can be packed together more densely than conventional materials, so they could be used to make transistors, solar cells, LEDs...

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