MIT startup has big plans to pull carbon from the air

In order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the United Nations has said we’ll…

Designing cleaner vehicles

Adi Mehrotra knew that his time at MIT wasn’t up yet when he finished his undergraduate…

Eight high school teams named Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams for 2023-24

The Lemelson-MIT Program has announced the 2023-24 InvenTeams, eight teams of high school students, teachers, and…

Q&A: Magnifying research impact with policymakers

The MIT Policy Lab at the Center for International Studies works with researchers across the Institute…

Celebrating Kendall Square’s past and shaping its future

Kendall Square’s community took a deep dive into the history and future of the region at…

Opening pathways for future supply chain leaders

Sit down with Maria Jesus Saenz of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) to…

To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds

ChatGPT and other deep generative models are proving to be uncanny mimics. These AI supermodels can…

Edward Crawley: A career of education, service, and exploration

Arriving as an undergraduate in the 1970s, working through his master’s and doctoral degrees, and then…

Cleaning up one of the world’s most commonly used substances

This past July, in the dusty basement of a building in Seattle, Washington, about 60 tons…

Organizing “spaghetti” software so it can be easily modified

As a software engineer, Dan Sturtevant SM ’08, PhD ’13 had jobs where making a small…