History of MITby Anne Trafton | MIT News15 Jul 2026
Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and a Nobel laureate, died July 11 at the age of 86.
MIT Newsby David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory15 Jul 2026
It’s a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during repetitions of the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is the same.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall15 Jul 2026
Sometimes a big story can be told with a very small object. Take the hazards of plastic pollution in the ocean, and a single bottle cap floating in the Pacific Ocean near Japan.
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News14 Jul 2026
Tissue engineers are finding ways to grow living organs and tissues from cells, with the aim of replacing diseased and damaged counterparts in the body.
History of MITby Nicole Estvanik Taylor | Department of Urban Studies and Planning13 Jul 2026
In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them.
MIT Newsby Zach Winn | MIT News13 Jul 2026
Infrared cameras can be used to spot useful information that our eyes can’t see, such as gases escaping from a pipeline, chemicals in the atmosphere, or heat leaking from a building.
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News10 Jul 2026
A new study led by MIT researchers could drive the development of more energy-efficient digital displays — such as flat-screen TVs, augmented and virtual reality headsets, smartphone screens...
Amazon Science Homepageby Mani Nambi; Nima Fazeli10 Jul 2026
From warehouse automation to surgical assistance, many real-world applications depend on robots performing delicate, contact-intensive tasks.
iHack, therefore iBlogby Dr. Ernie9 Jul 2026
Sequel to Occurrence Theory: Where Physics is Born Introduction In our previous article, we introduced the foundational thesis of Occurrence Theory (OT): physical observables are not fundamental...
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News9 Jul 2026
Loons, gulls, puffins, and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim.
Amazon Science Homepageby Frederick Robinson9 Jul 2026
Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the techniques we use to make language models better at sustained, multistep tasks like writing code, navigating a website, or carrying out a research...
iHack, therefore iBlogby Dr. Ernie8 Jul 2026
Sequel to Occurrence Theory: Where Physics is Born [Apologies to Madonna for parodying “Material Girl”] (The iconic synth intro kicks in — but it’s driven by a deep, hyper-precise algorithmic...
The Life of Scienceby TLoS Team7 Jul 2026
Is there a story about the Indian science ecosystem that you’ve always wanted to tell – but there was nobody to listen?
History of MITby Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing6 Jul 2026
As advanced medical technology gets closer to hitting consumer markets, the need for guardrails on protected usage should increase.
The Life of Scienceby Sayantan Datta3 Jul 2026
Two editions of the India Science Festival (ISF) had concluded when science communicator Sarah Hyder Iqbal joined its organising body, the not-for-profit Foundation for Advancing Science and...
History of MITby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences2 Jul 2026
On a Wednesday afternoon in April, a cohort of scholars from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) gathered in MIT’s Lewis Music Library.
smitten kitchenby deb1 Jul 2026
In something I never expected to have to clarify, this is a hot dog recipe but it is not a recipe for hot dogs.
Amazon Science Homepageby Kerry Constabile1 Jul 2026
At Amazon, we believe that as our strategy to reach net-zero by 2040 evolves, we need to continue to raise the bar on what and how we measure.
History of MITby Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | System Design and Management30 Jun 2026
Three teams comprising 35 students across eight different MIT departments and Wellesley College have been at work since fall 2025, designing critical early infrastructure elements that a moon base...
Asterisk Magazineby Lennart Finke30 Jun 2026
Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence. ….Right? In 1710, Scottish doctor John Arbuthnot presented a new proof for the existence of God.1 He had observed that for 82 years in a row...
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