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Majority of MIT Climate Change Committee Supports Divestment from Coal and Tar Sands
The spring 2015 semester closed out with a flurry of fossil fuel divestment activity. Students at Tufts took over the president’s office for nearly three […]
Juvenile Detention Drives Up Adult Incarceration Rates, MIT Study Finds
The United States’ juvenile justice system is busted. Each year, we lock up more than 130,000 teens and tweens at a total cost of $6 […]
Surf’s Up: MIT Helps Measure Largest Waves Ever Documented
The latest study out of MIT has it all: A professor named Peacock; autonomous underwater vehicles zipping around the South China Sea; seafaring scientists braving the […]
Q&A: Turing Award-Winner Michael Stonebraker
Michael Stonebraker, a researcher and adjunct professor of computer science and engineering at MIT, was recognized last month by the Association for Computing Machinery for […]
MIT to Launch a House-Sized Balloon for the Global Space Balloon Challenge
This Saturday, MIT grad students will compete in the Global Space Balloon Challenge, where over 250 teams in more than 40 countries will send latex, […]
MIT Scientists Create Map of Human Epigenome
Since the mapping of the human genome more than a decade ago, scientists have made significant progress in their understanding of the links between genetics […]
What If MIT Delivered Acceptance Letters By Drone?
MIT, always forward thinking, has envisioned a stark, dystopian future of college admissions, one where strange, heavy objects fall out of the sky, bringing news […]
Humans at MIT Are Using GIFs to Teach Computers About Feelings
Wired recently profiled a couple of guys at the MIT Media Lab, both of whom are working together to utilize GIFs in a whole new way. […]
Researchers Are Developing a Paper Test for Ebola and Other Viruses
In 2014, West Africa faced the largest Ebola outbreak in history. Skyrocketing diagnosis rates and an alarming number of deaths—the latest CDC figures confirm that nearly 9,600 […]
The Life in Our Stars
Cambridge scientists are leading the search for inhabitable (and maybe even inhabited) planets, and they hope to find one…in our lifetime.
Brain Scans May Offer Clues in Predicting Human Behavior
Brain scans may be useful in predicting a variety of helpful information, from challenges with learning and comprehension to how a person responds to medical treatment, […]
‘Photographing Places’ Exhibit Opening at MIT Museum
Place. The word is simple, yet can be interpreted in so many different ways. That concept is the central focus of Places journal, founded in the ’80s […]
MIT Bioengineer and Photographer Team Up to Make Pro-Vaccine Art
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.5 million children die each year from vaccine-preventable illnesses. The Art of Saving a Life, a new campaign launched […]
Former Gov. Deval Patrick Will Be ‘Visiting Innovation Fellow’ at MIT
With his eight years in office behind him, former Governor Deval Patrick will take on a new role at MIT’s Innovation Initiative beginning in the […]
Professors Want to Keep Robots from Getting Out of Control
Experts from around the country, including professors from Harvard University and MIT who study the future of Artificial Intelligence and its potential impacts on the […]