How Can Computers Apply What They’ve Learned to New Situations?
Developing this capacity in machine learning could better equip it for human interaction and a host of medical applications
Fall 2017
Every idea or invention born at MIT was developed through the collaborative efforts of considerable talents. And each one began the same way as MIT’s mission statement: with the imperative to advance knowledge.
How Can We Defeat the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance?
For MIT researchers working to hold the line against infection, step one is to know your enemy
Why Should Companies Invest in Employees?
Zeynep Ton's win-win theory of labor management
What Planets Beyond our Solar System may Harbor Life?
The TESS mission will scan our cosmic neighborhood to identify 50 top candidates
Latest stories
The New Robot in School
Tega, the fuzzy friend who tells stories to kids
Popular stories
How Can We Measure Damage?
Quantifying radiation damage in materials is the first step toward safer reactors and better nuclear compliance, says Mike Short
Growing Knowledge
Using cancer cells to study neural development
Discovery Science
Why Do You Ask?
The power of wanting to know
How Does the Brain Connect Smells with Behaviors?
For Gloria Choi, olfactory cues are a gateway to some of the brain's greatest mysteries
Seeing the Light
Aging Brain Initiative researchers discover a potential Alzheimer's therapy
Hidden Tides
The effects of huge, undersea waves run deep
Health of the Planet
A New Environment and Sustainability Minor
When it comes to the environment, MIT students aim not only for understanding but for action
How Do Plants Use Light?
What Gabriela Schlau-Cohen discovers about the proteins responsible for photosynthesis could be critical to agriculture and energy
Energy Endgame
What might a landscape shaped by oil look like when the world no longer relies on fossil fuels?
Flight School
A roster of experts steers students through the inner workings of the airline industry
Human Health
The New Shape of DNA
Mark Bathe merges design and biology at the nanoscale
Fully Invested
Andrew Lo harnesses the tools and technologies of finance for the common good
Hot Shots
MIT postdocs deliver a disruptive rapid vaccine development platform
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Prototyping Real-World Problems
An excerpt from Luis Perez-Breva's "doer's manifesto" on innovating
The Magnetism of a Digital-Era Campus
A graduate student analyzes MIT’s physical pathways of collaboration
Radical Transparency
Catherine Turco analyzes a managerial experiment from the inside out
Five New Landmarks to Watch for in Kendall Square
Seven years in the making, the Kendall Square Initiative has broken ground
Teaching Learning and Living
How Will the MIT Libraries Help to Answer Tomorrow’s Big Questions?
"We connect people to ideas and knowledge that they didn’t know they were looking for," says director Chris Bourg
How Can We Transform 21st-Century Education?
The new Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab will develop and scale up solutions for all learners
Automation and Interpretation
Behind the syllabus of an instructor-graded philosophy MOOC
A (How Not to) Crash Course
The basics of DIY electric vehicles