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New machine-learning application to help researchers predict...

July 24, 2025

One of the shared, fundamental goals of most chemistry researchers is the need to predict a molecule’s properties, such as its boiling or melting point. Once researchers can pinpoint that prediction, they’re able to move forward with their work yielding discoveries that lead to medicines, materials, and more. Historically, however, the traditional methods of unveiling these predictions are associated with a significant cost — expending time and wear and tear on equipment, in addition to funds. Enter a branch...

Professor Emeritus Keith Johnson, pioneering theorist in...

July 23, 2025

MIT Professor Emeritus Keith H. Johnson, a quantum physicist who pioneered the use of theoretical methods in materials science and later applied his expertise to independent filmmaking, died in June in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 89. A professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), Johnson used first principles to understand how electrons behave in materials — that is, he turned to fundamental laws of nature to calculate their behavior, rather than relying solely on experimental data....

Adhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks...

July 23, 2025

Inspired by a hitchhiking fish that uses a specialized suction organ to latch onto sharks and other marine animals, researchers from MIT and other institutions have designed a mechanical adhesive device that can attach to soft surfaces underwater or in extreme conditions, and remain there for days or weeks. This device, the researchers showed, can adhere to the lining of the GI tract, whose mucosal layer makes it very difficult to attach any kind of sensor or drug-delivery capsule....

Victor K. McElheny, founding director of MIT’s...

July 22, 2025

Victor K. McElheny, the celebrated journalist and author who founded MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program more than 40 years ago and served for 15 years as its director, died on July 14 in Lexington, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. He was 89. Born in Boston and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, McElheny’s storied journalism career spanned seven decades, during which he wrote for several of the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines, penned three critically acclaimed books, and produced groundbreaking coverage of...

School of Architecture and Planning recognizes faculty...

July 22, 2025

Seven faculty in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) have been honored for their contributions through promotions, effective July 1. Three faculty promotions are in the Department of Architecture; three are in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning; and one is in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. “Whether architects, urbanists, computer scientists, or nanotechnologists, they represent our school at its best, in its breadth of inquiry and mission to improve the relationship between human...

MIT Learn offers “a whole new front...

July 21, 2025

In 2001, MIT became the first higher education institution to provide educational resources for free to anyone in the world. Fast forward 24 years: The Institute has now launched a dynamic AI-enabled website for its non-degree learning opportunities, making it easier for learners around the world to discover the courses and resources available on MIT’s various learning platforms. MIT Learn enables learners to access more than 12,700 educational resources — including introductory and advanced courses, courseware, videos, podcasts, and...

A new way to edit or generate...

July 21, 2025

AI image generation — which relies on neural networks to create new images from a variety of inputs, including text prompts — is projected to become a billion-dollar industry by the end of this decade. Even with today’s technology, if you wanted to make a fanciful picture of, say, a friend planting a flag on Mars or heedlessly flying into a black hole, it could take less than a second. However, before they can perform tasks like that, image...

The unique, mathematical shortcuts language models use...

July 21, 2025

Let’s say you’re reading a story, or playing a game of chess. You may not have noticed, but each step of the way, your mind kept track of how the situation (or “state of the world”) was changing. You can imagine this as a sort of sequence of events list, which we use to update our prediction of what will happen next. Language models like ChatGPT also track changes inside their own “mind” when finishing off a block of...

MIT launches a “moonshot for menstruation science”

July 18, 2025

The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) has announced the establishment of the Fairbairn Menstruation Science Fund, supporting a bold, high-impact initiative designed to revolutionize women’s health research. Established through a gift from Emily and Malcolm Fairbairn, the fund will advance groundbreaking research on the function of the human uterus and its impact on sex-based differences in human immunology that contribute to gynecological disorders such as endometriosis, as well as other chronic systemic inflammatory diseases that disproportionately affect women,...

Helping cities evolve

July 17, 2025

Growing up in Paris, Vincent Rollet was exposed to the world beyond France from an early age. His dad was an engineer who traveled around the globe to set up electrical infrastructure, and he moved the family to the United States for two years when Rollet was a small child. His father’s work sparked Rollet’s interest in international development and growth. “It made me want to see and learn how things work in other parts of the world,” he...

MIT’s Mason Estrada to sign with the...

July 17, 2025

Like almost any MIT student, Mason Estrada wants to take what he learned on campus and apply it to the working world. Unlike any other MIT student, Estrada will soon be going to work on a pitcher’s mound, and some day Dodger Stadium might be his office. Estrada, the star pitcher for MIT’s baseball team, is signing a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, after the team selected him in the 7th round of the Major League Baseball...

New tool gives anyone the ability to...

July 17, 2025

Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Engineers are designing robotic helpers that can “learn from demonstration.” This more natural training strategy enables a person to lead a robot through a task, typically in one of three ways: via remote control, such as operating a joystick to remotely maneuver a robot; by physically moving the robot through the motions; or by performing the...

Can AI really code? Study maps the...

July 16, 2025

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote themselves to architecture, design, and the genuinely novel problems still beyond a machine’s reach. Recent advances appear to have nudged that future tantalizingly close, but a new paper by researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and several collaborating institutions argues that this potential future reality...

What do we owe each other?

July 16, 2025

MIT equips students with the tools to advance science and engineering — but a new class aims to ensure they also develop their own values and learn how to navigate conflicting viewpoints. Offered as a pilot this past spring, the multidisciplinary class 21.01 (Compass Course: Love, Death, and Taxes: How to Think — and Talk to Others — About Being Human), invites students to wrestle with difficult questions like: What do we value (and why)? What do we know...

How to more efficiently study complex treatment...

July 16, 2025

MIT researchers have developed a new theoretical framework for studying the mechanisms of treatment interactions. Their approach allows scientists to efficiently estimate how combinations of treatments will affect a group of units, such as cells, enabling a researcher to perform fewer costly experiments while gathering more accurate data. As an example, to study how interconnected genes affect cancer cell growth, a biologist might need to use a combination of treatments to target multiple genes at once. But because there...

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