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Tiny Cars: ‘AMAZING!!!’

December 9, 2025

The first time I visited Japan, I couldn’t help noticing all of the things that it does better than the United States. I rode bullet trains that top out at 200 miles an hour and spotted vending machines that serve fresh fruits and vegetables. But the worst part was the car envy: Why are America’s city streets clogged with enormous SUVs and trucks when we could instead have the Suzuki Hustler? An adorably rugged little box of a car,...

Astrocyte diversity across space and time

December 8, 2025

When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. The most abundant of the brain’s non-neuronal cells are astrocytes, star-shaped cells with a lot of responsibilities. Astrocytes help shape neural circuits, participate in information processing, and provide nutrient and metabolic support to neurons. Individual cells can take on new roles throughout their lifetimes, and at any given time, the astrocytes in one part...

MIT affiliates named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050...

December 8, 2025

Two current MIT affiliates and seven additional alumni are among those named to the 2025 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. Zongyi Li, a postdoc in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and Tess Smidt ’12, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), were both named as AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Seven additional MIT alumni were also honored. AI2050 Early Career Fellows include Brian Hie SM ’19, PhD ’21; Natasha Mary Jaques PhD ’20; Martin Anton...

The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming...

December 8, 2025

For a decade after its discovery, CRISPR gene editing was stuck on the cusp of transforming medicine. Then, in 2023, scientists started using it on sickle-cell disease, and Victoria Gray, a patient who lived with constant pain—like lightning inside her body, she has said—got the first-ever FDA-approved CRISPR gene-editing treatment. Her symptoms vanished; so did virtually everyone else’s in the clinical trial she was a part of. This year, the technology has started to press beyond its next barrier....

MADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect...

December 5, 2025

A spray-on coating to keep power lines standing through an ice storm may not be the obvious fix for winter outages — but it’s exactly the kind of innovation that happens when MIT students tackle a sustainability challenge. “The big threat to the power line network is winter icing that causes huge amounts of downed lines every year,” says Trevor Bormann, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and member of MITten, the winning...

MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using...

December 5, 2025

Generative AI and robotics are moving us ever closer to the day when we can ask for an object and have it created within a few minutes. In fact, MIT researchers have developed a speech-to-reality system, an AI-driven workflow that allows them to provide input to a robotic arm and “speak objects into existence,” creating things like furniture in as little as five minutes. With the speech-to-reality system, a robotic arm mounted on a table is able to receive spoken...

No NFL Game Has Ever Ended in...

December 5, 2025

There was no good reason to be thinking about NFL history when the Dallas Cowboys took on the Las Vegas Raiders a couple of weeks ago. Neither team had a winning record at the time, and the score was never close after halftime. But as the game stretched on that Monday night, the sportswriter and video maker Jon Bois sensed that something unprecedented could be afoot. “I glanced up and realized 36–23 was very much in play,” he told...

Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy...

December 5, 2025

There are some jobs human bodies just weren’t meant to do. Unloading trucks and shipping containers is a repetitive, grueling task — and a big reason warehouse injury rates are more than twice the national average. The Pickle Robot Company wants its machines to do the heavy lifting. The company’s one-armed robots autonomously unload trailers, picking up boxes weighing up to 50 pounds and placing them onto onboard conveyor belts for warehouses of all types. The company name, an...

The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist

December 4, 2025

Before Sam Kirchner vanished, before the San Francisco Police Department began to warn that he could be armed and dangerous, before OpenAI locked down its offices over the potential threat, those who encountered him saw him as an ordinary, if ardent, activist. Phoebe Thomas Sorgen met Kirchner a few months ago at Travis Air Force Base, northeast of San Francisco, at a protest against immigration policy and U.S. military aid to Israel. Sorgen, a longtime activist whose first protests...

MIT School of Engineering faculty and staff...

December 4, 2025

Each year, faculty and researchers across the MIT School of Engineering are recognized with prestigious awards for their contributions to research, technology, society, and education. To celebrate these achievements, the school periodically highlights select honors received by members of its departments, institutes, labs, and centers. The following individuals were recognized in summer 2025: Iwnetim Abate, the Chipman Career Development Professor and assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was honored as one of MIT Technology Review’s...

Alternate proteins from the same gene contribute...

December 4, 2025

Around 25 million Americans have rare genetic diseases, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective treatments, but also a lack of good information about their disease. Clinicians may not know what causes a patient’s symptoms, know how their disease will progress, or even have a clear diagnosis. Researchers have looked to the human genome for answers, and many disease-causing genetic mutations have been identified, but as many as 70 percent of patients still lack...

Revisiting a revolution through poetry

December 4, 2025

There are several narratives surrounding the American Revolution, a well-traveled and -documented series of events leading to the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence and the war that followed. MIT philosopher Brad Skow is taking a new approach to telling this story: a collection of 47 poems about the former American colonies’ journey from England’s imposition of the Stamp Act in 1765 to the war for America’s independence that began in 1775. When asked why he chose poetry...

MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that...

December 3, 2025

In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through tight spaces larger robots can’t reach, while simultaneously dodging stationary obstacles and pieces of falling rubble. So far, aerial microrobots have only been able to fly slowly along smooth trajectories, far from the swift, agile flight of real insects — until now. MIT researchers have demonstrated aerial...

Electricity Should Be Free at Noon

December 3, 2025

Listen−1.0x+ 0:009:34 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Electricity prices are becoming an outsize issue in American politics because they themselves are legitimately outsize. Compared with the cost of consumer goods, which have been rising rapidly over the past few years, electricity prices are climbing even faster, an estimated 13 percent nationwide since 2022. This year, roughly half of households making less than $50,000 struggled to pay their electricity bills. In California, where the rise has been...

Staying stable

December 3, 2025

With every step we take, our brains are already thinking about the next one. If a bump in the terrain or a minor misstep has thrown us off balance, our stride may need to be altered to prevent a fall. Our two-legged posture makes maintaining stability particularly complex, which our brains solve in part by continually monitoring our bodies and adjusting where we place our feet. Now, scientists at MIT have determined that animals with very different bodies likely...

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