Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition

The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is commercializing a new water desalination technology.…

MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC

MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) will substantially expand its fusion energy research and education…

Material designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize

The winner of this year’s Water Innovation Prize is a company commercializing a material that could…

Multiplying the MIT $100K’s impact

In two weeks, students will gather in Kresge Auditorium for the 26th annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship…

Professor Emeritus Markus Zahn, who specialized in electromagnetic field interactions, dies at 75

Markus Zahn, the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) within the MIT Department…

Architecture isn’t just for humans anymore

In a rural valley of northwestern Nevada, home to stretches of wetlands, sagebrush-grassland, and dozens of…

Dan Huttenlocher ponders our human future in an age of artificial intelligence

What does it mean to be human in an age where artificial intelligence agents make decisions…

Historic entrepreneurship course shows no signs of slowing down

In a process that has taken place for more than 60 years at MIT, this week…

Launchpad for health care entrepreneurs

When computation and systems biology PhD student Elvira Kinzina was diagnosed with Lyme disease during her…

MIT Startup Exchange: Creating powerful synergies

Most successful entrepreneurs know it is not enough to assume that inventing a smart or disruptive…